Little Rot: Akwaeke Emezi is a major talent. NoViolet Bulawayo

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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A once-in-a-generation voice.' Vulture'Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self.' Vanity Fair'A dazzling literary talent.' EsquireAkwaeke Emezi's exhilarating new novel follows five people over the course of a weekend which will brutally upend all of their lives.When Kalu drops Aima at the airport, it marks the end of their four-year relationship. Shattered and broken open, he thinks that's the last he will see of his girlfriend.But - reeling from the breakup - the pair are both drawn into Lagos: to separate nights of scandalous, decadent and sordid global parties. A way to escape, if only for a day. Just as two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur collide into the scene, everything goes awry when Kalu's actions plunge them all into a whirling descent through the corrupt, glittering underbelly of the city.

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Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the bestselling novel You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty; New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; and Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book, longlisted for both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces.