{"product_id":"i-am-still-with-you-9780008430764","title":"I Am Still With You","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lyrical investigation  both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMAAcutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNABoth epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSONAn astonishing search for a missing person, the hidden tragedies of war and the truth of Nigeria's history.Emmanuel Iduma never met his uncle, his father's favourite brother and the man for whom he is named. The elder Emmanuel left home in 1967 to fight in the Biafran War and was not seen again. The war lasted for three years, with young Igbo men volunteering to fight for a breakaway republic in the chaotic wake of British decolonization. Around one hundred thousand others who fought in the war share a fate like Emmanuel's uncle, though there are no official records of these losses. The tensions that gave rise to the conflict remain live, threatening sometimes to bubble over. In this landscape, there are no monuments or graves. Instead, a collective remembering that remains, for the most part, silent.I A\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A thorough and thoughtful reporter, Iduma explains how it has become taboo in Nigerian culture to discuss the war, and uses his family’s own tragedy to tell the devastating story of a country that has not been allowed to properly mourn its dead. \u003cem\u003eI Am Still With You\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply felt eulogy for those who were lost and a sobering reflection on the shame that comes with silence’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime \u003c\/em\u003eMagazine\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eThe 100 Must-Read Books of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A lyrical investigation into the nature of being, history, the collective memory of Biafra – a dark chapter in world history. Iduma writes with such startling clarity that the book ultimately becomes both powerful and transcendent’\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003eChigozie Obioma, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of \u003cem\u003eThe Fishermen\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAn Orchestra of Minorities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘A genre-defying work, \u003cem\u003eI Am Still with You\u003c\/em\u003e is a quest, both spiritual and real, a travelogue, a memoir, and a history of Biafra … Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered, and deeply affecting – a masterful achievement’\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003eAminatta Forna, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Devil That Danced on the Water\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Iduma confronts and contemplates the wounds left by the Biafran war: death on a mass scale; deaths in his family; griefs, angers and questions that still plague the living. \u003cem\u003eI Am Still With You\u003c\/em\u003e is both epic and intimate. It gives us the beauties and consolations of an ethnical imagination’\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003eMargo Jefferson, author of \u003cem\u003eNegroland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘In clear, elegiac prose, Iduma’s search leads to an affecting conclusion’ \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘Iduma’s quietly brilliant new book … blends travelogue, reportage, criticism, memoir, and history in a hypnotic tale’\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVulture\u003c\/em\u003e, Best Books of 2023\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘An immersive memoir … Iduma’s unraveling of the past is bound to leave readers eager to uncover their own family secrets’ \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399513710935,"sku":"9780008430764","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780008430764.jpg?v=1730467826","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/i-am-still-with-you-9780008430764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}