Sterile Sky
Dec 2023 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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352
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Winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for African literature. E.E. Sule's debut novel, Sterile Sky, presents a community wrecked by religious conflict and a young boy hunting for a better future.
On the day that Murtala comes of age, violent riots break out in his home city of Kano – leading to unspeakable tragedy within his own family. While chaos threatens to erase everything he holds dear, Murtala is stalked by monsters both real and imagined. A gifted student, he grows desperate to escape from the web of poverty and religious extremism that surrounds him.
An immensely poignant and powerful novel, Sterile Sky captures the religious conflicts of modern Nigeria and the enduring hope for peace.
'An ambitious work that tells the definitive story of an important moment in Nigeria's sociopolitical history.' Sanya Osha
On the day that Murtala comes of age, violent riots break out in his home city of Kano – leading to unspeakable tragedy within his own family. While chaos threatens to erase everything he holds dear, Murtala is stalked by monsters both real and imagined. A gifted student, he grows desperate to escape from the web of poverty and religious extremism that surrounds him.
An immensely poignant and powerful novel, Sterile Sky captures the religious conflicts of modern Nigeria and the enduring hope for peace.
'An ambitious work that tells the definitive story of an important moment in Nigeria's sociopolitical history.' Sanya Osha
About the author
E. E. Sule is a Nigerian novelist, poet, and professor. He received a Masters in literature at Benue State University and a PhD from the University of Abuja. He has been granted fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the African Humanities Program.
His poetry volume What the Sea Told Me won the 2009 ANA/NDDC Gabriel Okara Poetry Prize and the AWF/Anthony Agbo Prize for Poetry. His novel Sterile Sky was long-listed for the NLNG Prize for Nigerian Literature in 2012 and won the 2013 Commonwealth Prize, Africa Region.
Sule currently works as a professor of African literature and cultural studies at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University in Lapai, Nigeria.
His poetry volume What the Sea Told Me won the 2009 ANA/NDDC Gabriel Okara Poetry Prize and the AWF/Anthony Agbo Prize for Poetry. His novel Sterile Sky was long-listed for the NLNG Prize for Nigerian Literature in 2012 and won the 2013 Commonwealth Prize, Africa Region.
Sule currently works as a professor of African literature and cultural studies at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University in Lapai, Nigeria.
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