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Also by Akwaeke Emezi:

Son of the Morning, November 2026
Trade Paperback
Son of the Morning (Deluxe Limited Edition), November 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, June 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, June 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Death of Vivek Oji, June 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Death of Vivek Oji, August 2020
Hardcover / e-Book

THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI
By: Akwaeke Emezi

Riverhead Books
August 2020
On Sale: August 4, 2020
256 pages
ISBN: 0525541608
EAN: 9780525541608
Kindle: B0812DQFMH
Hardcover / e-Book
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They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.

One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his head on her welcome mat. The Death of Vivek Oji transports us to the day of Vivek's birth, the day his grandmother Ahunna died. It is the story of an over protective mother and a distant father, and the heart-wrenching tale of one family's struggle to understand their child, just as Vivek learns to recognize himself.

Teeming with unforgettable characters whose lives have been shaped by Vivek's gentle and enigmatic spirit, it shares with us a Nigerian childhood that challenges expectations. This novel, and its celebration of the innocence and optimism of youth will touch all those who embrace it.