Through Laughter and Tears: Modern Nigerian Short Stories

Through Laughter and Tears is a collection of modern Nigerian short stories edited by Duve Nakolisa. Quality short stories by twenty Nigerian authors are featured here, including stories by distinguished writers and literary-prize winners such as Helon Habila (Caine Prize, 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize [Africa Category], and 2015 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize), Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (2007 NLNG Prize for Literature), Tolu Ajayi (a BBC Short Story prize-winner), Obiwu (Charanjit Rangi Leadership Award), and Ayo Mamudu (Professor of English).

     Eminent literary critic, Prof. Charles Nnolim, adjudges the anthology as being “quite an advance on…earlier collections, especially in the stylistic finesse of the writers, if not in the rich variety of the Nigerian world that happily and fortuitously found conflations in these pages… Here, compressed in these pages, is the Nigerian world with its infinite variety, captured with the subtlety and compression of Maupassant, the local colour of Achebe, the objectivity of Anton Checkhov, the dramatic climax of Somerset Maugham, the surprise ending of O’Henry, and the epiphanic revelations of James Joyce…Through Laughter and Tears is an exciting adventure into the imaginative realm…I urge it on lovers of literature, especially lovers of the short story to whom the present volume must act as an exemplar.” Through Laughter and Tears: Modern Nigerian Short Stories is now in its 2nd edition.

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