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You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty
''You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty'' is a 2022 romance novel by Nigerian writer Akwaeke Emezi. It is Emezi's first romance novel, third adult novel and it follows Feyi Adekola, a Nigerian Americans, Nigerian American visual artist as she heals from the trauma of widowhood and finds new love. Background The novel is Emezi's first romance novel and they stated that the novel was partly inspired by the Florence and the Machine, Florence + the Machine song "Hunger". Emezi pulled the title of the book from the song lyrics after trying alternative names for the novel which they felt didn't fit. While writing the novel, they did not want it to fall under the regular trope of romance novels and instead made it about an illicit love triangle. Emezi wrote the novel with a queer gaze and also had it feature a supportive queer friendship. They deviated from the normal Heterosexuality, heterosexual romance trope and made it a queer romance with the main characters Feyi and Alim bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akwaeke Emezi
Akwaeke Emezi is a Nigerian fiction writer and video artist, best known for their novels ''Freshwater'', '' Pet,'' and their ''New York Times'' bestselling novel ''The Death of Vivek Oji''. Emezi is a generalist who writes speculative fiction, romance, memoir and poetry for both young adults and adults with mostly LGBT themes. Their work has earned them several awards and nominations including the Otherwise Award and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. In 2021, ''Time'' featured them as a Next Generation Leader. Early life and education Akwaeke Emezi was born in Umuahia in 1987 to an Igbo Nigerian father, and a mother who was the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Malaysia. Emezi grew up in Aba. Emezi started reading fantasy books and with their sister Yagazie used storytelling to escape the riots, dictatorship, and dangerous reality of their childhoods. Emezi was a "voracious" reader during childhood and they began writing short stories when they were five years old. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |