A01=Chioma Okereke
Author_Chioma Okereke
Brown Book Group
Category1=Fiction
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COP=United Kingdom
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Format_Paperback
IMPN=Virago Press Ltd
ISBN13=9781844086283
Language_English
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PD=20110203
POP=London
Price_€10 to €20
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PUB=Little
Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
WG=300
Product details
- ISBN 9781844086283
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2012
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Bitter Leaf is a richly textured and intricate novel set in Mannobe, a world that is African in nature but never geographically placed. At the heart of the novel is the village itself and its colourful cast of inhabitants: Babylon, a gifted musician who falls under the spell of the beautiful Jericho who has recently returned from the city; Mabel and M'elle Codon, twin sisters whose lives have taken very different paths, Magdalena, daughter of Mabel, who nurses an unrequited love for Babylon and Allegory, the wise old man who adheres to tradition. As lives and relationships change and Mannobe is challenged by encroaching development, the fragile web of dependency holding village life together is gradually revealed. An evocatively imagined debut novel from a promising new writer about love and loss, parental and filial bonds, and everything in between that makes life bittersweet.
Chioma Okereke was born in Benin City, Nigeria. She started her writing career as a poet before turning her hand to fiction. Her work has been shortlisted in the Undiscovered Authors Competition 2006,run by Bookforce UK, and in the Daily Telegraph's 'Write a Novel in a Year' Competition in 2007.
