Hyllad nigeriansk debutroman på svenska

Ayobami Adebayo, föddes 1988 i Lagos i Nigeria, men flyttade snart med sin familj till universitetsstaden Ile, där hon fortfarande bor. Det är också i Ife med omnejd som debutromanen Stanna hos mig till största delen utspelar sig. Romanen gavs 2017 ut i England och USA och nominerades samma år till Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Den legendariska recensenten Michiko Kakutani skrev om Stanna hos mig för New York Times: ”Adebayo, who is 29, is an exceptional storyteller. She writes not just with extraordinary grace but with genuine wisdom about love and loss and the possibility of redemption. She has written a powerfully magnetic and heartbreaking book.”

Pressröster om debutromanen

”Brännande, gripande, rakt igenom underbar!” Margaret Atwood 

”Adebayo, who is 29, is an exceptional storyteller. She writes not just with extraordinary grace but with genuine wisdom about love and loss and the possibility of redemption. She has written a powerfully magnetic and heartbreaking book.” New York Times

”Ayobami Adebayo’s debut novel, ”Stay with Me,” is a triumph – a complex, deeply felt exploration of love, marriage and family amid cultural and political upheaval in Nigeria from 1985 to 2008. Adebayo’s story contains enormous energy. Over and over, this reader found it hard to close the book and move onto other things.”Chicago Tribune

”Her clever and funny take on domestic live and Nigerian society is a welcome addition to her country’s burgeoning literary scene. Despite the intense sadness of her subject matter, she has produced a brights, big-hearted demonstration of female spirit, as well as the damage done by the boundlessness of male pride.” The Guardian

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