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          Kicking Tongues

          Kicking Tongues

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          Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new capital, Abuja.

          Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly tra...

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          Description

          Product ID:9781035906116
          Product Form:Paperback / softback
          Country of Manufacture:GB
          Title:Kicking Tongues
          Authors:Author: Karen King-Aribisala
          Page Count:320
          Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories, Nigeria
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          Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new capital, Abuja.

          Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer''s Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new capital, Abuja.

          Carefully selected by their hostess – an enigmatic figure who calls herself, ''The Black Lady The'' – the passengers on this journey range from a wealthy tribal chief to a humble petrol pump attendant, from a rain-maker to a reserved woman observing purdah.

          They are united only by their dissatisfaction with Nigeria''s chaotic and corrupt regime, a concern which is reflected in the widely differing stories they tell on their journey – bawdy tales, sharp satires, poignant narratives and moral fables.

          Blending poetry and prose, rich visual images, and witty puns, Karen King-Aribisala succeeds in transforming a fourteenth-century English classic into an exuberant and distinctively African work.


          Imprint Name:Apollo
          Publisher Name:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
          Country of Publication:GB
          Publishing Date:2024-03-14

          Additional information

          Weight226 g
          Dimensions200 × 130 × 20 mm