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Jagua Nana
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Jagua Nana

Cyprian Ekwensi
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A terrifically entertaining, funny and moving novel about an ageing beauty in 1960s Lagos.

‘She could out-class any girl who did not know what to do with her God-given female talent’

Jagua Nana - brash, generous, no longer young but still irresistible to every man she meets - lives a life of hedonism in Lagos, filled with parties, fights, scandal, drama and wild nights at the Tropicana club. Determined to help her young boyfriend Freddie pay for his education, she uses all her resources to get what she wants, until tragedy breaks the spell of the city for her. In this fast-paced, raucous depiction of 1960s Nigeria, everyone is on the make, and Jagua must make her own luck.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 May 2018
Pages
192
ISBN
9780241334997

A terrifically entertaining, funny and moving novel about an ageing beauty in 1960s Lagos.

‘She could out-class any girl who did not know what to do with her God-given female talent’

Jagua Nana - brash, generous, no longer young but still irresistible to every man she meets - lives a life of hedonism in Lagos, filled with parties, fights, scandal, drama and wild nights at the Tropicana club. Determined to help her young boyfriend Freddie pay for his education, she uses all her resources to get what she wants, until tragedy breaks the spell of the city for her. In this fast-paced, raucous depiction of 1960s Nigeria, everyone is on the make, and Jagua must make her own luck.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 May 2018
Pages
192
ISBN
9780241334997

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