Necessary Fiction
- Auteur: Eloghosa Osunde (Nigeria)
- Soort boek: Nigeriaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Fourth Estate
- Verschijnt: 31 juli 2025
- Omvang: 320 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 9,99 / £ 15,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Eloghosa Osunde Necessary Fiction review en recensie
- “Necessary Fiction’s Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive. They love hard, fight fierce, and love fiercer. And yet they are forced to the margins of their own society, having to navigate love and happiness under a blanket of fear, danger, and uncertainty. This is where the title becomes gospel, for they need those stories in order to live. When life has risk at every turn, family is chosen, and love is on the edge of the knife, fiction indeed becomes necessary.” (Marlon Jones, Booker Prize winning author)
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Nigeriaanse schrijfster Eloghosa Osunde
What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom? Is freedom for everyone?
Across Lagos, Osunde’s characters seek out love for self and their chosen partners, even as they risk ruining relationships with parents, spouses, family and friends. A rolling cast emerges: vibrantly active, stubbornly alive, brazenly flawed. These characters grapple with desire, fear, time, death, and God, forming and breaking unexpected connections; in the process unveiling how they know each other, have loved each other and had their hearts broken in that pursuit.
As they work to establish themselves in the city’s worlds of art, music, entertainment and creative commerce, we meet their collective and individual attempts to reckon with the necessary fiction they carry for survival.
Eloghosa Osunde is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist from Nigeria. Their critically acclaimed debut novel Vagabonds! was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. They are the recipient of the Plimpton Prize for Fiction 2021, the MoAD’s African Literary Award 2023 and an ASME Award for Fiction. Their writing has been published in The Paris Review, Granta, Guernica and elsewhere. They move between Nigeria, Nairobi, New York City and wherever else their work calls.