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Autore: | Lilymjok Kyuka |
Titolo: | The heart of Jacob / / by Kyuka Lilymjok |
Pubblicazione: | Lagos, Nigeria : , : Malthouse Press Limited, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (175 pages) |
Disciplina: | 823.92 |
Soggetto topico: | Nigerian fiction (English) |
Moneylenders | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The heart of Jacob |
ISBN: | 978-57399-8-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910467066403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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