{"product_id":"gods-children-are-little-broken-things-9781399606271","title":"Gods Children Are Little Broken Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e''Although he writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze  Ifeakandu''s voice is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. These quietly transgressive stories are the work of a  brilliant new talent''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAMON GALGUT,  Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Promise  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Contemporary love stories with moments of real surprise and revelation\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBRANDON TAYLOR, author of \u003ci\u003eReal Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Gorgeous... A hugely impressive collection, full of subtlety, wisdom and heart''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSARAH WATERS, author of \u003ci\u003eFingersmith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Captures the tenderness and tumult of queer love, familial love, self-love, and the many ways love elates and eludes us.... Masterful. What a glorious collection!''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDEESHA PHILYAW, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Magic in motion... A staggering, heartshattering show''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eELOGHOSA OSUNDE, author of \u003ci\u003eVagabonds!    \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful, significant debut\u003c\/b\u003e. Although he  writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu's voice  is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. These  quietly transgressive stories are \u003cb\u003ethe work of a brilliant new talent\u003c\/b\u003e. * Damon Galgut, Booker Prize winner for THE PROMISE *\u003cbr\u003eContemporary love stories with \u003cb\u003emoments of real surprise and revelation\u003c\/b\u003e. * Brandon Taylor, author of REAL LIFE *\u003cbr\u003eMagic  in motion. My love for this work isn't just about the lush tenderness  of the writing-which is abundant here-but also about the book's internal  circuitry. This book knows what it's doing, where its electricities  need to pass through for maximum impact, knows who it is for and who it  certainly doesn't answer to, and is its own self-contained habitat. God's Children Are Little Broken Things  remains subtle and measured even through massive emotional transitions,  carrying the reader the whole way through. \u003cb\u003eArinze writes like a  composer or an orchestral director, bringing notes together to form a  staggering, heartshattering show\u003c\/b\u003e. * Eloghosa Osunde, author of VAGABONDS! *\u003cbr\u003eArinze Ifeakandu captures the tenderness and tumult of queer love, familial love, self-love, and the many ways love elates and eludes us. Written with compelling intricacy and deep intimacy, \u003cb\u003ethese heart-grabbing stories are masterful. What a glorious collection!\u003c\/b\u003e * Deesha Philyaw, author of THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES *\u003cbr\u003eIn these \u003cb\u003egorgeous \u003c\/b\u003estories, Ifeakandu takes on big, untidy emotions - love, loneliness, yearning, grief - and writes about them with \u003cb\u003eextraordinary deftness and grace\u003c\/b\u003e. This is a hugely impressive collection, \u003cb\u003efull of subtlety, wisdom and heart\u003c\/b\u003e. * Sarah Waters, author of FINGERSMITH *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese  stories are written with raw, tender grace\u003c\/b\u003e. They dramatize what love is  like in a time when love is under siege. They are brilliant when they  explore intimate moments and are superb as they render with complexity  and nuance the relations between characters. It is clear from this book  that \u003cb\u003ea serious literary talent has emerged\u003c\/b\u003e. * Colm Tóibín, author of THE MAGICIAN *\u003cbr\u003eThese stories are wonderful - searching, unsparing, and contemplative. Each carries the freight of love, suffering, memory, and politics. Each is so finely and sensually drawn the reader lives them. Together, they are \u003cb\u003equite simply a tour de force\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e * Sarah Hall, author of BURNTCOAT *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is the very meaning of exquisite; even the heartbreaking moments come with the great beauty of being alive. Delicate, raw in its honesty and viscerally alive, \u003ci\u003eGod's Children Are Little Broken Things\u003c\/i\u003e, is the kind of collection that \u003cb\u003esteals your breath and fills your heart\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e * Xochitl Gonzalez, author of OLGA DIES DREAMING *\u003cbr\u003eEach story is \u003cb\u003ean exquisite plunge into tenderness\u003c\/b\u003e. Brutal at times, unforgiving at others but always a moment from which to stand back and reflect. The writing is intimate: with immense skill Arinze Ifeakandu takes you by the hand - and in allowing him to do so you feel your own heart beat that little bit faster. * Melody Razak, author of MOTH *\u003cbr\u003eThese are brilliant stories: heartbroken but pulsing with life,  wise but never cynical, and soaked in an atmosphere so convincing it's  like being inside a great album. The prose alone is worth the price of  the ticket, as lush as it is exact, but through it comes whole worlds of  longing and travail, youth and aging, queer love expressed in so many  of its facets. Arinze Ifeakandu is \u003cb\u003ea major talent\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGod's Children Are Little Broken Things\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea seriously good book\u003c\/b\u003e. * Adam Haslett, author of IMAGINE ME GONE *\u003cbr\u003eThese are heartbreaking stories of love and loss, as granular and  nourishing as the harmattan, the cold winter wind that blows out of the  Sahara. Ifeakandu is \u003cb\u003ea writer of lyricism and profundity at the  beginning of a brilliant career\u003c\/b\u003e. * Edmund White, author of A PREVIOUS LIFE *\u003cbr\u003eAn exquisite, complex examination of the vulnerabilities of  queer love and desire amid family fears, dreams, and the power of  expectations, \u003ci\u003eGod's Children Are Little Broken Things\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea shimmering, beguiling debut\u003c\/b\u003e. * Asako Serizawa, author of INHERITORS *\u003cbr\u003eReading these stories kept me from my life and responsibilities, the book making demands of me the way only \u003cb\u003espectacular \u003c\/b\u003eart can. Arinze Ifeakandu is \u003cb\u003ea genuinely brilliant mind and voice\u003c\/b\u003e. * Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of ALL OF THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT *\u003cbr\u003eIfeakandu proves himself the kind of writer who can catch you off balance with sudden, lucid slants of feeling ... these angry and compassionate stories are full of such moments, when an oppressive system is brought into dreadful focus through the lends of private suffering * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003ePassionate, profound and pulsing with life, this is a remarkable debut * Eithne Farry, Daily Mail *\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47836750905687,"sku":"9781399606271","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399606271.jpg?v=1710381955","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gods-children-are-little-broken-things-9781399606271","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}