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Soho Press
January 2015
On Sale: January 6, 2015
Featuring: Bukuru
304 pages
ISBN: 1616954574
EAN: 9781616954574
Kindle: B00JI49P14
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This debut novel from the author of the powerful,
universally acclaimed Foreign Gods, Inc. looks at a woman’s
drowning and the ensuing investigation in an emerging
African nation. In the country of Madia (based in part on Ndibe’s native
Nigeria) a young prostitute runs into the sea and drowns.
The last man who spoke to her, the “madman” Bukuru, is asked
to account for her last moments. When his testimony
implicates the Madian armed forces, Bukuru is arrested and
charged with her death. At the first day of trial, Bukuru, acting as his own
attorney, counters these charges with allegations of his
own, speaking not only of government complicity in a series
of violent assaults and killings, but telling the court that
the president of Madia himself is guilty of rape and murder. The incident is hushed up, and Bukuru is sent back to
prison, where he will likely meet his end. But a young
journalist manages to visit him, and together they journey
through decades of history that illuminate Bukuru’s life,
and that of the entire nation. A brave and powerful work of fiction, Arrows of Rain is a
brilliant dramatization of the complex factors behind the
near-collapse of a nation from one of the most exciting
novelists writing today.
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