WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY
A PBS NewsHour New York Times Book Club Pick
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE
WINNER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NYPL'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.
In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground. In "The Future Looks Good," three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while in "Light," a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he loves. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to "fix the equation of a person" - with rippling, unforeseen repercussions.
Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky heralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her.
Edad recomendada: Adultos jóvenes.
ARIMAH LESLEY NNEKA
Lesley Nneka Arimah nació en Londres en 1983 y creció entre Nigeria, Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, debido al trabajo militar de su padre. Es autora de relatos breves que han aparecido en The New Yorker, Granta y McSweeney's. Su colección What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky ganó el Kirkus Prize en 2017 y el Young Lions Fiction Award en 2018. Ha sido reconocida con el Caine Prize, el O. Henry Award y el Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Fue seleccionada por la National Book Foundation como una de las "5 Under 35". Sus historias exploran la experiencia de la diáspora nigeriana, los vínculos familiares y la condición femenina, combinando realismo con elementos fantásticos. Vive en Estados Unidos y trabaja en una novela.
