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RESULTSSearching enCompass books for 'Helon Habila'... We found 2 matches.
Helon Habila
Measuring Time Twin brothers growing up in the tiny Nigerian village of Keti, where their lives are dominated by their controlling father, Mamo and LaMamo are separated when LaMamo escapes to pursue his dream of becoming a soldier, but when religious zealots incite the people to violence, he returns home to battle the enemy and to be reunited with his brother.
W W Norton & Co Ltd 2007 pbk £7.00 ISBN 978-0393052510
Helon Habila
Waiting for an Angel Lomba is a young journalist living in Lagos under Nigeria's brutal military regime. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the novel he's writing. Yet when his room mate goes mad and is beaten up by the soldiers, his first love is forced to marry a man she doesn't want, and his neighbours decide to hold a demo that is bound to lead to a riot, Lomba realises that he can no longer bury his head in the sand. It's time to write the truth about this reign of terror...
2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region, Best First Book)
Hamish Hamilton 2002 hbk £12.99 ISBN 0-241-14186-9
Penguin Books 2003 pbk £6.99 ISBN 0-14-101006-1 Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A1123b25C83hHu1A5B640
http://www.nigeria-arts.net/Literature/Poetry/Helon_Habila/ http://www.commonwealthwriters.com/2003/regwinners/angel.html http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,818449,00.html http://www.africanwritersabroad.org.uk/profiles/helon profile.htm
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