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** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST AND BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2023 **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION **A voice unlike any other' OBSERVERI fell in love immediately' MAX PORTERA writer of imagination and flair' ECONOMISTSmart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking' KAMILA SHAMSIEBuoro's writing deserves to inspire a generation of superheroes' THE TIMESFifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with hisfriends, grappling with his fantasies about white girls (especially blondes) and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of Black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa. Sure enough, Andy soon falls for the first white girl he lays eyes on. But multiple crises are looming, set toshake the foundations of everything he knows and loves... 'This is extraordinary, driven by a gloriously eccentric centr

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/14/2024
      ISBN13: 9781526638014, 978-1526638014
      ISBN10: 1526638010
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      ** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST AND BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2023 **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION **A voice unlike any other' OBSERVERI fell in love immediately' MAX PORTERA writer of imagination and flair' ECONOMISTSmart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking' KAMILA SHAMSIEBuoro's writing deserves to inspire a generation of superheroes' THE TIMESFifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with hisfriends, grappling with his fantasies about white girls (especially blondes) and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of Black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa. Sure enough, Andy soon falls for the first white girl he lays eyes on. But multiple crises are looming, set toshake the foundations of everything he knows and loves... 'This is extraordinary, driven by a gloriously eccentric centr

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