Somber City
An Evocative Novel of the Promise, the Pain, the Disenchantment of Contemporaty Lagos..
Fiction & Literature, Literary
| Author: | Rotimi Ogunjobi | ISBN: | 9783958496590 |
| Publisher: | AM Book and Team Publishing Limited | Publication: | May 9, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rotimi Ogunjobi |
| ISBN: | 9783958496590 |
| Publisher: | AM Book and Team Publishing Limited |
| Publication: | May 9, 2016 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Somber City is an evocative novel of the promise, expectation, and disappointment of post-colonial Nigeria. 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:
Somber City is an evocative novel of the promise, expectation, and disappointment of post-colonial Nigeria. 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:
