Accra noir / edited by Nana-Ama Danquah.
Material type: TextSeries: Akashic noir seriesPublisher: Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781617758898
- 1617758892
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Mystery | DANQUAH, NANA-AMA | Available | 33111010438709 |
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.