Lagos After Rain
Tunde Ajayi
Lagos After Rain
Tunde Ajayi₦3,500
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About this book
Three strangers shelter under the same overpass during a storm in Yaba, and their lives keep colliding for the next fifteen years. A generous, funny, heartbreaking portrait of a city that never lets anyone go.
Sample
The rain came the way it comes in Lagos in June, which is to say it did not begin, it arrived — whole, already at full volume, as though it had been happening somewhere just above the city for an hour and had only now been let down. Bisi got under the overpass at Ojuelegba with her shoes in her hand. She was twenty-four and she had ruined the shoes anyway; that was the annoying part. They were the interview shoes. She had bought them in February with money she did not have …
The author
Tunde Ajayi is a Lagos-based novelist and former architect. He writes about cities the way other people write about lovers.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 296
- Published
- 2024
- Chapters available
- 4