TY - STAND KW - African American author KW - Female author AU - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) AB -

Fantasy is central to the novel, but it is set in the dystopia of contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, but hope is held out for a eutopia of collective identity brought about by a visitor from space. The author says that Lagos is the Portuguese for lagoon.

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African American female author (b. 1974) of Igbo ancestry

C7 - 2014 CY - London DA - 01/2014 LA - eng N2 -

Fantasy is central to the novel, but it is set in the dystopia of contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, but hope is held out for a eutopia of collective identity brought about by a visitor from space. The author says that Lagos is the Portuguese for lagoon.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton PP - London PY - 2014 TI - Lagoon ER -