The Harmattan Letters
Adaeze Nwosu
The Harmattan Letters
Adaeze Nwosu₦4,200
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About this book
A retired postmistress in eastern Nigeria discovers a sack of undelivered letters from the war years, and begins carrying them, one by one, to the families they were meant for. A quiet, devastating novel about what a country owes the people it forgot.
Sample
The sack had been in the back room of the post office for thirty-one years, and Ngozi Aniche had walked past it perhaps eleven thousand times. It was jute, the colour of a dry season, and someone long dead had written UNDELIVERED on it in white paint that had since flaked into a kind of Braille. She had been twenty-three when she started at the Nkwo Ogidi post office and fifty-four on her last morning, and in all that time the sack had never once seemed like her business. Th…
The author
Adaeze Nwosu writes from Enugu, where she teaches literature and keeps a stubborn garden. Her short fiction has appeared across the continent and her first novel won the Ekwensi Prize.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 312
- Published
- 2023
- Chapters available
- 4