Details

ISBN-10: 0525541632
ISBN-13: 9780525541639
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Publish Date: 06/18/2024
Dimensions: 9.28" L, 6.36" W, 1.03" H

Little Rot

Hardcover

Price: $29.00

Overview

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY HARPER’S BAZAAR, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BOOKPAGE AND MORE!

“Emezi unspools a web of erotic danger in their entertaining latest…readers in search of a decadent good time will find it here.”Publishers Weekly

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning, visionary Akwaeke Emezi

One weekend.
The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.
A party that goes awry.
A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed.

Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the breakup, visits an exclusive sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally and suddenly upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, collide into the scene just as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city’s corrupt and glittering underworld, they’re all looking for a way out, fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them.

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Praise for Little Rot

"Drama, mystery, beautiful clothes, expensive cars, explosive sex...Emezi takes readers to an abyss from which there is no escape."-Kirkus Reviews

"Emezi unspools a web of erotic danger in their entertaining latest...readers in search of a decadent good time will find it here."- Publishers Weekly

"Multimedia polymath and gender-norm disrupter Emezi. . . examines taboo and trauma in their creative work...Emezi can be counted upon for an ambience of dread and a feverish momentum." -The Millions

"Emezi is a genius, IMHO. . . Super queer, disturbing and unflinching, Emezi's latest will leave you uncomfortably questioning morality, power, sex and, well, humanity as a whole." - Ms Magazine

"Prolific and brilliant multigenre Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi is back with a novel chronicling the end of a relationship and a sex party that throws its characters into chaos. Read everything Emezi writes!"-Autostraddle

Praise for Akwaeke Emezi

"Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self." –Vanity Fair

"A writer of startling versatility." –R. O. Kwon, New York Times Book Review

"Emezi is a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self." –Esquire

"A once-in-a-generation voice" –Vulture

"Emezi is a beacon of literary genius." –The Lambda Literary Review

"One of our greatest living writers" –Shondaland

"Extraordinarily powerful." –Edwidge Danticat, The New Yorker

"A major talent." –San Francisco Chronicle

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Details

ISBN-10: 0525541632
ISBN-13: 9780525541639
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Publish Date: 06/18/2024
Dimensions: 9.28" L, 6.36" W, 1.03" H
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