Speak No Evil. Uzodinma Iweala Issue , Summer The house is just how I thought it would look. Right where I thought it would be. I walked here all the way up Dorset Avenue from the bus stop, sweating like I just ran ten miles, but I should be used to heat. It’s not the heat that’s got me, though. · 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 “An evocative narrative and stark dialogue keeps Uzodinma Iweala’s Speak No Evil from a single dull moment. His characters’ rawness and beauty overwhelm page by page. 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 “An evocative narrative and stark dialogue keeps Uzodinma Iweala’s Speak No Evil from a single dull moment. His characters’ rawness and beauty overwhelm page by page, looping their two stories into one heartbreaking narrative, one that Cited by: 1.
In Speak No Evil, Uzodinma Iweala's protagonist, Niru, says that his father "reminds us constantly that if he could walk ten miles to get sardines and tinned tomatoes for his family during the war, dodging low-flying Nigerian fighter plans that made a sport of strafing hungry refugees, then there is nothing he or we can't do."The war to which Niru's father refers, the reason why he emigrated. Speak No Evil - Ebook written by Uzodinma Iweala. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Speak No Evil. "Speak No Evil" by Uzodinma Iweala is a novel that encompasses many themes. Narrator Niru is a first generation Nigerian immigrant who is struggling with his sexuality. His parents are wealthy and he attends a prominent private school. As the story opens, Niru has already been accepted into Harvard on early admission.
In the tradition of Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Speak No Evil explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. It is a novel about the power of words and self-identification, about who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for other people. “Speak No Evil” by Uzodinma Iweala is a novel that encompasses many themes. Narrator Niru is a first generation Nigerian immigrant who is struggling with his sexuality. His parents are wealthy and he attends a prominent private school. As the story opens, Niru has already been accepted into Harvard on early admission. In Speak No Evil, Uzodinma Iweala highlights some of the realities of growing up in a Nigerian immigrant household in the U.S. Things get real for the Ikemadu family when Niru’s dad, Obi, discovers Niru is queer; “It is an abomination!” The novel tells the heartbreaking story that unfolds.
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