The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa (Export Edition) av Stephen Buoro

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AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST FOR 2023'A blazing debut' Kamila Shamsie'I fell in love immediately' Max Porter'Beautiful, intelligent, and heart-wrenching' NoViolet Bulawayo'Exhilarating . . . A voice unlike any other' ObserverFifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls - especially blondes - and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa. Sure enough, the reluctantly nicknamed 'Andy Africa' soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival, multiple crises loom. An unfamiliar man claims, despite his mother's denials, to be Andy's father, and the gathering of an anti-Christian mob is headed