Curandera by Okojie, Irenosen

Curandera (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781593767846)

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Format: Hardcover
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Curandera by Okojie, Irenosen

Curandera

$27.00
Curandera by Okojie, Irenosen

Curandera

$27.00
Format: Hardcover
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Set between 17th Century Cape Verde, and contemporary London, Curandera is a kaleidoscopic story of rebirth and redemption, and a mythic tale of metamorphic recalibrations across time

In the Gethsemane, Cape Verde, the appearance of a mysterious new arrival, Zulmira, coincides with a series of strange events. Zulmira is a shamanic disciple of Oni, an omnipotent, loving yet vengeful deity. In contemporary London, botanist Therese lives with Haitian musician Azacca, Peruvian drifter Emilien, and daring Finn. Four kindred spirits, bound together by their shared descent from Oni, they travel to another realm to complete a secret, sacred task for her. But a disruptive object returns with them from the other plane: a bleeding ribcage, flowering with intoxicating fruit.

As Zulmira grows close to fisherman Domingos, his wife, Marguerite, and their daughter, Sueli, the increasingly disturbing occurrences in Gethsemane disrupt forms, time and place. In London, Therese and her group, growing ever more powerful on the otherworldly fruit, discover the disturbing costs of their service to Oni. As the stage is set for the collision of two dimensions, the workings of shamanism intersect with the powerful forces of friendship, love and jealousy.

Author: Irenosen Okojie
ISBN-10: 1593767846
ISBN-13: 9781593767846
Publisher: Soft Skull
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2025
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
By Irenosen Okojie
By Irenosen Okojie
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IRENOSEN OKOJIE is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language, and ideas. Her novel Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Speak Gigantular was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her collection Nudibranch was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. The story "Grace Jones" won the 2020 AKO Caine Prize.

Her journalism has been featured in the New York Times, The Observer, The Guardian and the Huffington Post. She is a Contributing Editor for The White Review. She is a judge for the 2023 Women's Prize For Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, Irenosen was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature in 2021.

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