Caged Ocean Dub
Book description
There are dragons in Lagos and witches who wear their sons’ skins, while a cabal of otherworldly beings are collecting intelligent life forms in the depths of the universe.
Nigerian author Dare Segun Falowo’s poetically precise language and spine-tingling plot twists are reminiscent of both Poe and Kafka as they…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Caged Ocean Dub as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This collection by the gifted Nigerian author who excels at evoking a haunting sense of beauty with words, is sure to delight anyone that enjoys throwing themselves off a literary cliff to see words and images fly by like many-splendored birds.
These are stories that will transport you to changed versions of our world with exquisite prose. Familiar and not. Dark and beautiful and occasionally terrifying they run the gamut from dark fantasy to science fiction to cosmic horror. Often set in Nigeria and using, Yoruba mythology, folklore, and legends as jumping-off points this is an immersive and strange book…
From Wole's list on single-author collections of African speculative fiction.
Caged Ocean Dub is an inventive and tiered book with fascinating and imaginative African-hued stories.
It comes in a blend of flash fiction, short stories, even a novelette,
and it crosses genre in a scrumptious way that deliciously attacks your
attention. This book is pregnant with ache, harmony, song, ritual and
superstition—climatic and hypnotic start to finish. Reading it is almost like
immersion in a dream sequence.
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