Waiting for an Angel
A Fiction, Literature, Novels book. This was soul calling to soul. A tired, trapped lock at last meeting the key that unlocks it. Helon...
Lomba is a young journalist living in Lagos under Nigeria's brutal military regime. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the novel he's writing. Yet when his room-mate goes mad and is beaten up by soldiers, his first love is forced to marry a man she doesn't want, and his neighbours decide to hold a demo that is bound to lead to a riot, Lomba realizes that he can no longer bury his head in the sand. It's time to write the truth about this reign of terror ...
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- Pages: 227 pages
- ISBN: 9780141010069 / 141010061
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This was soul calling to soul. A tired, trapped lock at last meeting the key that unlocks it. Helon Habila, Waiting for an Angel //
With the words,"everything is politics in this country..." Lomba, a young aspiring novelist and poet, is hired for a local newspaper's arts page. Set in Lagos, the time the latter part of the nineteen nineties when Nigeria is controlled, yet again, by a brutal military regime, Helon Habila has created a powerful, moving portrait of... The opening story, which Habila won the Cain prize for, is beautifully imagined and told. The open-ended finale to Lomba's story allows for a hope that is much needed in Africa today. The other stories, though they do connect to the first one, are not as strong. I was on the edge of my seat during the suspenseful scene following the... KOBOBOOKSReviewed by The Guardian
