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Book Title: Broken Dreams on Lofty Hills
Author: Charles Akinsete
Genre: Fiction
Pagination: 189
Publisher: Kraft Books Limited
Year: 2024
About The Book:
Broken Dreams on Lofty Hills is pulsating bildungsroman novel in which the overwhelming intensity of the thoughts and feelings of the young protagonist are revealed in a subliminal stream of consciousness. It is largely a reflection of the interesting life of the central character, which is eclipsed in a highly disciplined, religious and academic institution. The story foregrounds a world full of broken dreams, whereby hopeful characters, who become victims of a chaotic society, are ultimately driven to tragic ends.
Blurb:
Suspenseful. Fluid. Poetic. With stylistic panache, this novel takes the reader through different layers of rots and vices in relation to the socio-political and economic realities of twenty-first century Nigerian society. Through a carefully woven plot plied by two narrative voices embodied in the subliminal thoughts of a young protagonist who moves kinetically in search of meanings in a broken world of broken dreams, the novel is a remarkably brilliant work of imagination and reality, inventively blended.
Broken Dreams on Lofty Hills is the compelling work of a literary craftsman who has come to creative maturity.
—— Remi Raji
Professor of Africana and Cultural Studies & Creative Writing
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