GraceLand

By - Abani, Chris

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2004

ISBN 10 - 0312425287

ISBN 13 - 9780312425289

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Teenage boys

Shelf No - 6

Call Number - 813.6 ABA

Physical Description - 321 pages ; 24 cm

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"A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new."--T. Coraghessan Boyle The sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Nuanced, lyrical, and pitch perfect, this is a remarkable story of a son and his father, and an examination of postcolonial Nigeria, where the trappings of American culture reign supreme.

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