Helon Habila, Author . Norton $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-05193-3
Habila's first novel captures the chaos and brutality of Nigeria in the 1990s under the rule of despotic military dictator Gen. Sani Abacha. The story follows Lomba, a quixotic, apolitical student in the capital city of Lagos, who is trying to...
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Helon Habila, Author . Norton $13.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-393-05251-0
In the late 1970s, twin brothers LaMamo and Mamo Lamang dream of leaving their Nigerian village to find fame and fortune. When they're 16, LaMamo runs away and joins various rebel factions fighting in West Africa, while his sickly brother, Mamo,
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Helon Habila, Norton, $14.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-33964-2
In Habila's stirring third novel (after Measuring Time), a pair of Nigerian reporters are dispatched to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil executive. Young Rufus and his disgraced mentor, Zaq, track the wife's captors—guerrilla forces fighting
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Helon Habila. Columbia Global Reports, $12.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-9971264-6-4
Poet and novelist Habila (Oil on Water) explores the rise of the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram and the fallout after their 2014 kidnapping of 276 girls from a government-sponsored school. It is a dispatch from the front lines, as Habila...
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Helon Habila. Norton, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-23959-1
The plight of contemporary African refugees is the dramatic core of this moving tale. The nameless narrator of the book’s opening (the novel is divided into six sections with different characters, but the narrator connects all of them) is a native...
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