somber city
Download or Read eBook somber city PDF written by Rotimi Ogunjobi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Rotimi Ogunjobi |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2015-11-11 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789785341041 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9785341046 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis somber city by : Rotimi Ogunjobi
Book excerpt: Somber City is an evocative novel of the promise, expectation, and disenchantment of life in contemporary Nigeria, in a dismal perspective of its most populous city, Lagos. The novel illuminates, through a mix of fact and fiction, a seminal moment in modern history: Nigeria's fervent passage through a period of immense oil wealth in the 1970s to a sudden descent into a cataclysmal debt trap in the early 1980s. This chaotic period, captured within the city of Lagos, is experienced alongside the protagonist Femi Falashe, a young engineer seeking to get his life back in track after a sudden job loss, as well as five other unforgettable characters
