Retrospective Vision

Retrospective Vision

Udenta O. Udenta

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Editorial:
African Books Collective
Año de edición:
2015
Materia
Cuentos
ISBN:
9789789182305

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This 5th volume in the Boyhood Works Series contains a thriller Novella and a collection of short stories, Retrospective Vision: Cultural Interactions, provides a counterpoint to the adrenalin- charged world of this volume’s first part. The earthy, natural, magical realism and oral tradition reminisant of the novels of Chinua Achebe.

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