Sefi Atta
Born
Lagos, Nigeria
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Everything Good Will Come
24 editions
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2005
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A Bit of Difference
17 editions
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2012
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Swallow
8 editions
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2010
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News from Home: Short Stories
8 editions
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2009
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The Bead Collector: A novel
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The Bad Immigrant
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Lawless & Other Stories
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2009
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It's My Turn!
by
2 editions
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2010
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Renewal: An essay from the collection, Of This Our Country
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de tuin van gebroken geluk
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2004
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“She says the lesson to learn is that the world is round, which means that if I run too fast I might end up chasing the very homeland I am running from.”
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“She drinks her Eva water. Their parents were taken down by cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Respectable diseases.”
― A Bit of Difference
― A Bit of Difference
“Most of the children were shoeless and you were confronted with the dilemma that, no matter how much money you had and no matter where you could escape to overseas, you could not save yourself from your own country. p. 134, Madness i the Family”
― News from Home: Short Stories
― News from Home: Short Stories
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