01762nam 2200409 450 991082710070332120230809232714.0978-57399-8-8(CKB)4100000009589828(MiAaPQ)EBC5945116(Au-PeEL)EBL5945116(OCoLC)1124332546(EXLCZ)99410000000958982820201109d2017 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe heart of Jacob /by Kyuka LilymjokLagos, Nigeria :Malthouse Press Limited,2017.1 online resource (175 pages)978-54775-8-4 Jacob prospers as a moneylender and pig merchant by taking advantage of other people's misfortunes. But when he seeks to exploit the famine afflicting his village Tounga by lending money at high interest rates to poor villagers, he does not reckon what a sacrilege his pigs would commit which give the people an opportunity to feast on his own misfortune. When this happens community gives way to individual desires, and the stomach dictates to the head what it should think and believe in. Reason bends to absurdity and custom bows to bizarre novelty. Life explodes into a sinister mess that points to only one outcome: Jacob and society's ultimate ruin.Nigerian fiction (English)MoneylendersNigerian fiction (English)Moneylenders.823.92Lilymjok Kyuka1627033MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827100703321The heart of Jacob3963415UNINA