{"id":40673,"date":"2016-05-04T10:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=40673"},"modified":"2016-05-04T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:11:55","slug":"many-days-jowhor-ile-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/many-days-jowhor-ile-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFor the rest of his life, Ajie would be known as the last person to have seen Paul, the family\u2019s exemplary, exceptional firstborn. On a Monday afternoon during Nigeria\u2019s 1995 rainy season, 17-year-old Paul announces he\u2019s visiting a friend in the next compound; he leaves the house but doesn\u2019t return.<\/p>\n

As initial not-quite-concern morphs into utter desperation, Ajie \u2013  four years younger \u2013 documents his family\u2019s story, current events interspersed with what transpired previously. Moving back and forth in time, he narrates his exploits as the youngest and most rambunctious of three children in a tight-knit family, reveals the cosmopolitan experiences of their liberal parents, and recounts his extended family\u2019s involvement with an oil company\u2019s intrusion into their ancestral village.<\/p>\n

Jowhor Ile<\/a> overlays Ajie\u2019s personal history onto Nigeria\u2019s turbulent, violent recent past to create a debut novel of combustive intensity and universal heartbreak. Fans of Chigozie Obioma<\/a>\u2019s stupendous The Fishermen<\/a><\/em> will find resonating satisfaction listening to Nigerian British actor Chukwudi Iwuji mellifluously narrate another unforgettable title set in his native country. Libraries searching for international titles will do well to acquire both of these works.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Audio,” Library Journal<\/em>, April 15, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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