| Description |
269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Akashic noir series |
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Akashic noir series.
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| Summary |
"Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales--ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sins--is woven into the fabric of the city's everyday life... Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nation's soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence, the colonial imposition, declarations of freedom, followed by coups d'état, decades of dictatorship, and then, finally, a steady march forward into a promising future... Much like Accra, these stories are not always what they seem. The contributors who penned them know too well how to spin a story into a web...It is an honor and a pleasure to share them and all they reveal about Accra, a city of allegories, one of the most dynamic and diverse places in the world."--From the introduction. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: One day for master. Chop money / Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond -- Shape-shifters / Adjoa Twum -- Moon over Aburi / Kwame Dawes -- Fantasia in fans and flat screens / Kofi Blackson Ocansey -- Part II: Heaven gate, no bride. The Labadi Sunshine Bar / Billie McTernan -- The driver / Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo -- The situation / Patrick Smith -- Part III: All die be die. Intentional consequences / Anne Sackey -- Tabilo Wucfc / Gbontwi Anyetei -- When a man loves a woman / Nana-Ama Danquah -- Part IV: Sea never dies. Kweku's house / Ayesha Harruna Attah -- The boy who wasn't there / Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh -- Instant justice / Anna Bossman. |
| Subject |
Crime scenes -- Ghana -- Accra -- Fiction.
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Accra (Ghana) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Accra (Ghana) -- Fiction.
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Crime scenes. (OCoLC)fst00883101
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Noir fiction, English. (OCoLC)fst01739570
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Ghana -- Accra.
(OCoLC)fst01205301
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| Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Noir fiction. (OCoLC)fst01922488
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Short stories.
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Noir fiction.
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| Added Author |
Danquah, Nana-Ama, editor, author.
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| ISBN |
9781617758898 (paperback) |
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1617758892 (paperback) |
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