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Little Rot
Reader Score
68%
68% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Good
Based on 7 reviews on
"The perfect steamy read for those hot summer nights." -People
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning, visionary Akwaeke Emezi
One weekend.
The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.
A party that goes awry.
A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed.
Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the breakup, visits an exclusive sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally and suddenly upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, collide into the scene just as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city's corrupt and glittering underworld, they're all looking for a way out, fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them.
Book Details
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Publish Date: Jun 18th, 2024
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.28in - 6.36in - 1.03in - 1.03lb
- EAN: 9780525541639
- Categories: • Friendship• Psychological• Literary
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What people are saying
"It’s a sort of fun, sexy, dangerous, dark thriller about corruption, told with beautiful style and a literary eye."
"There’s an art to depicting things going seriously wrong very quickly, and Akwaeke Emezi’s latest novel, “Little Rot,” is a masterwork of the form... the reader feels like an unwilling witness to the world’s dark truths. The effect is mesmerizing."
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"A masterwork...mesmerizing...We come away troubled, unsettled -- and in some subtle way changed."-The New York Times Book Review
"Twisty, poetic roller-coaster ride of a novel...If you want a book that grabs onto your brain and shakes it, I highly recommend Akwaeke Emezi's genre-defying Little Rot. It gutted and enthralled me in equal measure."-NPR, 2024 "Books We Love"
"A gritty yet hypnotic novel about a web of loosely connected friends grappling with hidden desires in Lagos. . . Emezi portrays the African city as a corrupting force--but only because falling from grace is so painfully, exquisitely human." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"[H]as the dark twists and pace of a thriller, the ambitious scope of literary fiction, the language of poetry and the yearning of romance...[T]he blend of melodrama, peril and existential angst in Little Rot is shockingly entertaining and beautifully wrought."-Los Angeles Times
"Step into the dark side of Nigerian high society in this sexy, thrilling novel...the perfect steamy read for those hot summer nights." -People Magazine
"Drama, mystery, beautiful clothes, expensive cars, explosive sex...Emezi takes readers to an abyss from which there is no escape."-Kirkus Reviews
"Emezi unspools a web of erotic danger...readers in search of a decadent good time will find it here."-Publishers Weekly
"Little Rot hurtles toward devastation, but even as you anticipate the horrors ahead, the escapist thriller-style pacing will keep you pushing on."-BookPage
"Multimedia polymath and gender-norm disrupter Emezi. . . examines taboo and trauma in their creative work...Emezi can be counted upon for an ambience of dread and a feverish momentum." -The Millions
"Emezi is a genius, IMHO. . . Super queer, disturbing and unflinching, Emezi's latest will leave you uncomfortably questioning morality, power, sex and, well, humanity as a whole." -Ms Magazine
"Prolific and brilliant multigenre Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi is back with a novel chronicling the end of a relationship and a sex party that throws its characters into chaos. Read everything Emezi writes!"-Autostraddle
Praise for Akwaeke Emezi
"Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self." --Vanity Fair
"A writer of startling versatility." --R. O. Kwon, New York Times Book Review
"Emezi is a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self." --Esquire
"A once-in-a-generation voice" --Vulture
"Emezi is a beacon of literary genius." --The Lambda Literary Review
"One of our greatest living writers" --Shondaland
"Extraordinarily powerful." --Edwidge Danticat, The New Yorker
"A major talent." --San Francisco Chronicle
What people are saying
"It’s a sort of fun, sexy, dangerous, dark thriller about corruption, told with beautiful style and a literary eye."
"There’s an art to depicting things going seriously wrong very quickly, and Akwaeke Emezi’s latest novel, “Little Rot,” is a masterwork of the form... the reader feels like an unwilling witness to the world’s dark truths. The effect is mesmerizing."