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  • Hodder Paperbacks
  • Hodder & Stoughton
  • Hodder & Stoughton

  • Narrator

    Adjoa Andoh,Ben Onwukwe

  • Runtime

    10hr 44m

Lagoon

Nnedi Okorafor

8 Reviews

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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Science fiction, Fantasy

It's up to a famous rapper, a marine biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador - and prevent mass extinction - in this masterful novel that blends magical realism with high-stakes action

A star falls from the sky. A woman rises from the sea.
The world will never be the same.

Three strangers, each isolated by his or her own problems: Adaora, the marine biologist. Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa. Agu, the troubled soldier. Wandering Bar Beach in Lagos, Nigeria's legendary mega-city, they're more alone than they've ever been before.

But when something like a meteorite plunges into the ocean and a tidal wave overcomes them, these three people will find themselves bound together in ways they could never imagine. Together with Ayodele, a visitor from beyond the stars, they must race through Lagos and against time itself in order to save the city, the world ... and themselves.

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Praise for Lagoon

  • Chaotic, enthralling, and moving fluidly from character voices to oral-style narration to gut-punchingly beautiful prose

  • Lagoon mixes a traditional trope of SF - first contact with visitors from the stars - with African magical realism to create a lyrical, poetic mash-up examining social deprivation, religious excess and the power of story on our lives - The Guardian

  • A fascinating entry into the science fiction of place - io9

  • A wonderfully contemporary look at how people react when confronted with the unknown on a massive scale, with all the personal character changes and challenges I could hope for - Fantasy Faction

  • Praise for Who Fears Death:

  • Beautifully written, this is dystopian fantasy at its very best, - Library Journal Review

  • Both wondrously magical and terribly realistic. - Washington Post

  • A fantastical, magical blend of grand storytelling - Publishers Weekly

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Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor is the author of numerous novels and short stories, including Zahrah the Windseeker, which won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature, Who Fears Death, winner of the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel,and Lagoon, which Ngugi wa Thiong'o, author of Wizard of the Crow, calls 'a thing of magic and beauty.' She lives in New York, where she is a professor of creative writing at the University of Buffalo, SUNY.

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