News from Home

By Sefi Atta

From Zamfara up north to the Niger delta down south, with a finale in Lagos, this collection of stories and a novella respond to and amplify the newspaper headlines in a range of Nigerian voices. Men, women, and children speak out to us from these stories, from immigration centers and police barracks, from street corners and maternity wards. Ghanaian writer Mohammed Naseehu Ali says, Sefi Atta writes like one who has lived the life of each single character in her dazzling collection of short stories.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Release date: Oct 19, 2012
• ISBN: 9781623710095

Sefi Atta

Sefi Atta is the author of two previous novels, Swallow and Everything Good Will Come, and a collection of short stories, News from Home. She has been awarded the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa and the NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa. Her novels have been published around the world and translated into numerous languages, and her radio and stage plays have been performed internationally. She was born in Lagos and now lives in the United States.

Reviews for News from Home

[Abayomi Shukra · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I kept pausing, the stories are hard-hitting, well written. This author is a master at her craft

[kimreadthis · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

#4 tie-breaker rankingThese well-written, cohesive stories meld together to form a collection offering a glimpse at contemporary African life.The stories offer an especially compelling look at female Africans struggling to balance both tradition and independence.The author skillfully interweaves certain stories (a character from one story appears in a minor role in a second story; an event from one story is referenced in another). This rewards the perceptive reader and effectively demonstrates the reality that one person’s experience of life can so radically differ from another’s simultaneous experience.