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Accra noir / edited by Nana-Ama Danquah.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Akashic noir seriesPublisher: Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781617758898
  • 1617758892
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: One day for master. Chop money / Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond -- Shape-shifters / Adjoa Twum -- Moon over Aburi / Kwame Dawes -- Fantasia in fans and flat screens / Kofi Blackson Ocansey -- Part II: Heaven gate, no bride. The Labadi Sunshine Bar / Billie McTernan -- The driver / Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo -- The situation / Patrick Smith -- Part III: All die be die. Intentional consequences / Anne Sackey -- Tabilo Wucfc / Gbontwi Anyetei -- When a man loves a woman / Nana-Ama Danquah -- Part IV: Sea never dies. Kweku's house / Ayesha Harruna Attah -- The boy who wasn't there / Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh -- Instant justice / Anna Bossman.
Summary: "Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales--ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sins--is woven into the fabric of the city's everyday life... Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nation's soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence, the colonial imposition, declarations of freedom, followed by coups d'état, decades of dictatorship, and then, finally, a steady march forward into a promising future... Much like Accra, these stories are not always what they seem. The contributors who penned them know too well how to spin a story into a web...It is an honor and a pleasure to share them and all they reveal about Accra, a city of allegories, one of the most dynamic and diverse places in the world."--From the introduction.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Mystery DANQUAH, NANA-AMA Available 33111010438709
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighbourhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Kwame Dawes, Adjoa Twum, Kofi Blankson Ocansey, Billie McTernan, Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo, Patrick Smith, Anne Sackey, Gbontwi Anyetei, Nana-Ama Danquah, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Eibhlin Ni Chleirigh, and Anna Bossman.

Introduction -- Part I: One day for master. Chop money / Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond -- Shape-shifters / Adjoa Twum -- Moon over Aburi / Kwame Dawes -- Fantasia in fans and flat screens / Kofi Blackson Ocansey -- Part II: Heaven gate, no bride. The Labadi Sunshine Bar / Billie McTernan -- The driver / Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo -- The situation / Patrick Smith -- Part III: All die be die. Intentional consequences / Anne Sackey -- Tabilo Wucfc / Gbontwi Anyetei -- When a man loves a woman / Nana-Ama Danquah -- Part IV: Sea never dies. Kweku's house / Ayesha Harruna Attah -- The boy who wasn't there / Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh -- Instant justice / Anna Bossman.

"Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales--ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sins--is woven into the fabric of the city's everyday life... Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nation's soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence, the colonial imposition, declarations of freedom, followed by coups d'état, decades of dictatorship, and then, finally, a steady march forward into a promising future... Much like Accra, these stories are not always what they seem. The contributors who penned them know too well how to spin a story into a web...It is an honor and a pleasure to share them and all they reveal about Accra, a city of allegories, one of the most dynamic and diverse places in the world."--From the introduction.

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