One Leg on Earth

di 'Pemi Aguda (Autore)

Virago, 2026

***ESQUIRE, BEST BOOKS OF 2026*** A powerful, lyrical and haunting literary debut. A coming-of-age novel set in modern Lagos, for readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Julia Armfield. 'POWERFUL, DAZZLING, IRRESISTIBLY STRANGE' New York Times 'A SINGULARLY NAIL-BITING EXPERIENCE' Guardian 'A STUNNING AND LYRICAL LITERARY HORROR NOVEL' Esquire, Best Books of 2026 * * * All across the city, pregnant women are walking into water . . . Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she finds a city of adventure and opportunity. Her new world is one of fancy gallery openings, glamorous friends, and all the shiny potential of the future, encapsulated in projects like Omi City, the brand-new housing development her company is building. But Yosoye's idyllic vision of Lagos soon begins to seem naïve, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her. Something is not right about Omi City, but no-one will give her satisfactory answers. And then, after a chance encounter in her first weeks in Lagos, Yosoye realizes that she is pregnant... A vibrant and atmospheric evocation of modern Lagos, the promises of progress and the mysterious lure of the abyss, One Leg on Earth is a haunting and arresting story from an unmissable new voice in literature. * * * PRAISE FOR ONE LEG ON EARTH . . . 'A powerfully eerie portrait of Lagos ... a virtuoso of dread and suspense, Aguda splices eco-horror, cosmic distress and ideas of the monstrous feminine into a singularly nail-biting experience ' Guardian 'Powerful, vividly written ... a superb parable of loneliness, greed and desire, full of creeping dread'Marie Claire 'Intricately layered, striking, powerful, dazzling, irresistibly strange' New York Times 'Marvelous ...

• Autore: 'Pemi Aguda
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Virago
• Formato: EPUB3 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9780349018263