Chimeka Garricks: A Broken People's Playlist, Kartoniert / Broschiert
A Broken People's Playlist
Buch
- Stories (from Songs)
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Current price: EUR 17.45
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- Publisher:
- HarperCollins, 01/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780063268197
- Item number:
- 11677668
- Volume:
- 224 Pages
- Weight:
- 178 g
- Format:
- 203 x 135 mm
- Thickness:
- 13 mm
- Release date:
- 21.1.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
"A dozen interlinked, music-oriented stories set in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where Garricks was raised... Each songlike story feels like a breakout hit encapsulating the brokenness and the beauty in life’s soundtrack."—Booklist, starred review “Beautifully woven . . . a magical delight.”—Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears A Broken People’s Playlist is set to the soundtrack of life, comprised of twelve music-inspired tales about love, the human condition, micro-moments, and the search for meaning and sometimes, redemption. It is also Chimeka Garricks’s love letter to his native city, Port Harcourt, introducing us to a cast of indelible characters in these loosely interlocked tales. There is the teenage wannabe-DJ eager to play his first gig even as his family disastrously falls apart—who reappears many years later as an unhappy middle-aged man drunk-calling his ex-wife; a man who throws a living funeral for his dying brother; three friends who ponder penis captivus and one’s peculiar erectile dysfunction; a troubled woman who tries to find her peace-place in the world, helped by a headful of songs and a pot of ginger tea. Infused with the author’s resonant and evocative storytelling, each page holds “the depth of a novel” (Hari Kunzru); a character, a moment that will—like a favorite song—long linger in the heart and mind.
Chimeka Garricks
A Broken People's Playlist
Current price: EUR 17.45