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ISBN: 9781876756666
0.400 kgs
221 x 133 mm
336 pp
Everything Good Will Come
Sefi Atta

Winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature Finalist, Multicultural Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards Foreword Magazine, Book of the Year Award, Honourable Mention An international prize-winning novel by Nigerian-born Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come is a powerful and eloquent story of a young woman's coming of age. It is 1971, and Nigeria is under military rule and eleven-year-old Enitan Taiwo is tired of waiting for school to start. Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan's brother, allow her to be friends with the new girl next door, Sheri Bakare? The two girls' paths traverse this novel, as one manipulates the traditional system and the other attempts to defy it.


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'Sefi Atta’s first novel has the nerve to redefine existing traditions of African storytelling. It confronts the familiar passions of a city and a country with unusual insights and a lyrical power pointing our literature to truly greater heights.

Reviewer: Odia Ofeimun, author of The Poet Lied
'A contemporary rendering of the Nigerian female experience in the footsteps of Buchi Emecheta and Flora Nwapa. It brought the Lagos Queen’s Drive, Dolphin Square and Surulere alive.'

Reviewer: The Nigerian Guardian, Nigeria
'Again and again Atta’s writing tugs at the heart, at the conscience. At the same time, reflecting the resilience of the Lagosians whose lives she explores, humour is almost constant, effervescent, most often satirical...'

Reviewer: Sunday Independent, South Africa

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