{"product_id":"9780008498030","title":"Vagabonds! - Eloghosa Osunde","description":"\u003cp\u003e`Gasp in wonder' Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf                                `Electrifying' Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch                                `Gasp-inducing' AnOther                                 `Joyous, defiant' Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water                                `Visionary' Guardian                                VAGABONDS! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos.                                   Lagos is a city for all . you share this place with flesh and not-flesh, and it's just as much their city as it is yours.                       Ek�, the spirit of Lagos, and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and through the lives of the `vagabonds' powering modern Nigeria: the queer, the displaced and the footloose.             With Tatafo as our guide we meet these people in the shadows. Among them are a driver for a debauched politician; a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work; a mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her reality. As their lives begin to intertwine-in markets and underground clubs, in churches and hotel rooms-the vagabonds are seized and challenged by the spirits who command the city. A force is drawing them all together, but for what purpose?          In her debut novel VAGABONDS!, Eloghosa Osunde tackles the insidious nature of Nigerian capitalism, corruption and oppression, and offers a defiant, joyous and inventive tribute to all those for whom life itself is a form of resistance.                         `Every year promises the birth of the next literary superstar. VAGABONDS! is an exceptional debut' i-D                                `Dazzling, haunting, angular and funny' TLS                                `If you read one debut novel . this should be it' Los Angeles Times                                `Gasp-inducing . captures the lives of outsiders with spirit and tenderness' AnOther                                 `There is nothing in the world like this book' Lesley Nneka Arimah, author of What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eloghosa Osunde","offers":[{"title":"320 pages \/ 30\/03\/2023 \/ Myth \u0026 legend told as fiction","offer_id":56965186912631,"sku":"9780008498030","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780008498030_8d5b40df-441a-4ad9-945a-a1989aa5987c.jpg?v=1775125313","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780008498030","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}