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Black Sunday

Black Sunday is a gripping debut novel by Tola Rotimi Abraham, set against the backdrop of Lagos, Nigeria. The story follows four siblings—Bibike, Ariyike, Andrew, and Peter—whose lives are dramatically altered by a series of personal and financial calamities.

The novel begins in 1996 when the children’s once-stable family falls apart after their father loses his job and their mother joins a religious cult, leading to a devastating betrayal. Separated by circumstance and growing up in a chaotic and corrupt society, the siblings must navigate the complexities of life on their own, grappling with faith, trauma, poverty, and their fractured relationships.

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A fierce and fresh debut novel, set over the course of two decades in Nigeria, about sisterhood, fate and female resistance.

Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife and their father gambles away their home, and the siblings are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins’ paths diverge once the household shatters: one embracing modernity as the years pass, the other consumed by religion.

Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Black Sunday delves into the chaotic heart of family life. In the process, it tells a tale of grace in the midst of daily oppression, and of how two women carve their own distinct paths of resistance.

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Weight 0.206 kg
Dimensions 13.0 × 19.6 × 2.5 cm
Author

Format

Paperback
Pages

288
Publisher

Canongate Books
Year Published

2020

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