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Lagos, Nigeria : Malthouse Press Limited, 2017

1 online resource (175 pages)

ISBN 9789785739985 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9789785477580

Print version: Lilymjok, Kyuka. Heart of Jacob. Lagos, Nigeria : Malthouse Press Limited, 2017 175 pages ISBN 9789785477580

Jacob prospers as a moneylender and pig merchant by taking advantage of other people’s misfortunes. But when he seeks to exploit the famine afflicting his village Tounga by lending money at high interest rates to poor villagers, he does not reckon what a sacrilege his pigs would commit which give the people an opportunity to feast on his own misfortune. When this happens community gives way to individual desires, and the stomach dictates to the head what it should think and believe in. Reason bends to absurdity and custom bows to bizarre novelty. Life explodes into a sinister mess that points to only one outcome: Jacob and society’s ultimate ruin..

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