Alien Stories - American Reader Series

"A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity." -George Saunders Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories. These eighteen startling stories, each centered around an encounter with the unexpected, explore what it means to be an alien. With a nod to the dual meaning of alien as both foreigner and extraterrestrial, Osondu turns familiar science-fiction tropes and immigration narratives on their heads, blending one with the other to call forth a whirlwind of otherness. With wry observations about society and human nature, in shifting landscapes from Africa to America to outer space and back again, Alien Stories breaks down the concept of foreignness to reveal what unites us all as 'aliens' within a complex and interconnected universe.

ISBN:	9781950774319
Publisher:	BOA Editions Ltd.
Imprint:	BOA Editions
Published date:	11 May 2021
DEWEY:	823.914
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	176
Weight:	214g
Height:	134mm
Width:	203mm
Spine width:	15mm

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