Audiobooks by Eloghosa Osunde

Necessary Fiction

"‘A vital work for our times’ IRENOSEN OKOJIE 'Beautiful … this is prose worth spending time with' MARIE CLAIRE ‘A gorgeously deeply humane book’ NICOLE DENNIS-BENN 'A vivid, stirring revolution' YRSA DALEY-WARD ‘The ink practically hovers off the page’ KAVEH AKBAR What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom? Is freedom for everyone? Across Lagos, a rolling cast of unforgettable characters seek out love in all its forms, daring to push all other relationships – with partners, family and friends – to the brink in the process. As they form and break unexpected connections, they reveal how they know each other, have loved each other and had their hearts broken in that pursuit. Stubbornly alive and brazenly flawed, they work to establish themselves in the city’s worlds of art, music, entertainment and creativity while reckoning with desire, fear, death and God. Here, we witness their collective and individual attempts to grapple with the necessary fictions that they all carry for survival. This is a shimmering, defiant cross-generational portrait of what it means to be queer in contemporary Nigeria. 'Both deeply earnest and unique' VULTURE 'Unabashedly queer, complicated and occasionally outright hopeful' NPR 'Osunde is brilliant at character, giving the cast rich, knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation' TLS ‘Necessary Fiction's Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive’ MARLON JAMES 'Osunde’s writing shines … It’s not just beautiful – it’s transformative’ BASSEY IKPI"

Eloghosa Osunde (Author), Akin Omotoso, Anthony Oseyemi, Arit Okpo, Atta Otigba, A’rese Emokpae, David Ijiti, Ifeyinwa Unachukwu, Jerry Iwu, Leo Anifowose, Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong, Tumi Olufawo, Uzoamaka Power (Narrator)

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Vagabonds!

"‘Gasp in wonder’ Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf ‘Electrifying’ Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch ‘Gasp-inducing’ AnOther ‘Joyous, defiant’ Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water ‘Visionary’ Guardian VAGABONDS! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos. Lagos is a city for all . . . you share this place with flesh and not-flesh, and it’s just as much their city as it is yours. Èkó, the spirit of Lagos, and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and through the lives of the ‘vagabonds’ powering modern Nigeria: the queer, the displaced and the footloose. With Tatafo as our guide we meet these people in the shadows. Among them are a driver for a debauched politician; a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work; a mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her reality. As their lives begin to intertwine―in markets and underground clubs, in churches and hotel rooms―the vagabonds are seized and challenged by the spirits who command the city. A force is drawing them all together, but for what purpose? In her debut novel VAGABONDS!, Eloghosa Osunde tackles the insidious nature of Nigerian capitalism, corruption and oppression, and offers a defiant, joyous and inventive tribute to all those for whom life itself is a form of resistance. ‘Every year promises the birth of the next literary superstar… VAGABONDS! is an exceptional debut’ i-D ‘Dazzling, haunting, angular and funny’ TLS ‘If you read one debut novel … this should be it’ Los Angeles Times ‘Gasp-inducing … captures the lives of outsiders with spirit and tenderness’ AnOther ‘There is nothing in the world like this book’ Lesley Nneka Arimah, author of What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky"

Eloghosa Osunde (Author), Eloghosa Osunde (Narrator)

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