E-grāmata: Speak No Evil

That Iweala is a writer of spectacular talent is without question * Observer * A memorable book from an important talent * Guardian * A finely observed coming-of-age story . . . an emotional eloquence that reveals the awful power of love and guilt * Mail on Sunday * The soul of Speak No Evil is the tortuous, exquisitely rendered relationship between Niru and his father * New Yorker * Stunning * Vogue * Tackling race, gender and violence, it's a sharp burst of emotion * Stylist * Speak No Evil is the rarest of novels: the one you start out just to read, then end up sinking so deeply into it, seeing yourself so clearly in it, that the novel starts reading you * Marlon James * A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our times and yet is never anything less than a scintillating, page-turning read * Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure * A wrenching, tightly woven story about many kinds of love and many kinds of violence. Speak No Evil probes deeply but also with compassion the cruelties of a loving home. Iweala's characters confront you in close-up, as viscerally, bodily alive as any in contemporary fiction * Larissa MacFarquhar * A quietly tragic triumph * Financial Times * A craftily written heart-wrencher, it explores what it means to be black and queer in today's USA * Independent, Best LGBT novels to look out for in 2018 * Elegant and elegiac, and evokes Washington DC with subtle power -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Guardian * Uzodinma Iweala . . . reminds his readers of the underlying humanity of his characters, whatever their heritage, race, or sexuality * TLS * Adept storytelling and eye for lucid detail . . . it has the stomach-churning pace of a Greek tragedy * Financial Times * Elegant and elegiac * Bookseller *