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Abidemi Sanusi
(Book)
Product code: E001
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73 in stock
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Eyo, a ten year old girl is trafficked from Nigeria to the UK in search of ‘a better life’ and ends up in sex slavery. Eventually, she is rescued and finds that even in freedom, society demands a price from those it should protect…
Shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Limited stock. Author-signed copy.
Ebook also available.
Reviews
'...outstanding commentar[y] on the conditions that make life in home countries unbearable, the casual cruelties meted out on strangers as they travel, and the indifference that sustains it all.' Judging Panel, Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010 — Judging panel, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2010
Eyo may have lost to South Africa’s Trespass (Dawn Garisch) for Africa's Best Book in this year’s Commonwealth Writer’s Prize but it is still up there among the continent's finest works of realistic fiction - Daily Monitor
What this literature most highlights is the fragility of life for a majority of people in Africa... – Africareview.com
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