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Little Rot: A Novel Hardcover – June 18, 2024

by Akwaeke Emezi (Author)
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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY HARPER'S BAZAAR, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BOOKPAGE AND MORE!

"Emezi unspools a web of erotic danger in their entertaining latest...readers in search of a decadent good time will find it here."–Publishers Weekly

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.
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  1. Print length
    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Riverhead Books
  4. Publication date
    June 18, 2024
  5. Dimensions
    6.22 x 1 x 9.29 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0525541632
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0525541639
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Akwaeke Emezi Returns with LITTLE ROT

Takes readers to an abyss from which there is no escape, says Kirkus Reviews about LITTLE ROT

One of our greatest living writers, says Shondaland about LITTLE ROT

...entertaining, says Publishers Weekly about LITTLE ROT

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Praise for Little Rot: 

“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 in their entertaining latest...readers in search of a decadent good time will find it here."- Publishers Weekly

“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 


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

About the Author

Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, a Walter Honor Book, and a Stonewall Honor Book; Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and short-listed for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, which won the 2022 ALA Stonewall Book Award–Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award; and most recently, Content Warning: Everything, their debut poetry collection; Bitter, their second young adult novel; and You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, their debut romance novel. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation and featured on the cover of Time as a Next Generation Leader, they are based in liminal spaces.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Riverhead Books (June 18, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0525541632
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0525541639
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.11 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.22 x 1 x 9.29 inches

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Akwaeke Emezi is an artist and writer based in liminal spaces.

Their most recent adult novel THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI (Riverhead Books) was an Instant New York Times Bestseller, an Indie Bestseller, and an Indie Next selection. A 2018 National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree, Emezi was born in Umuahia and raised in Aba, Nigeria.

Their debut YA novel PET (Make Me a World/RHCB) was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a Lambda Literary Award, as well as an Indie Next selection. Praised in The New York Times, it received a Stonewall Honor, a Walter Honor, and an Otherwise Award Honor after debuting with five starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Bookpage, and Bulletin.

Emezi's debut autobiographical novel FRESHWATER (Grove Atlantic) is in early development as a TV series at FX, with Emezi writing and executive producing with Tamara P. Carter. Translated into twelve languages, FRESHWATER won the 2019 Otherwise Award (formerly the Tiptree) and the Nommo Award. It was a New York Times Notable Book as well as a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and a Lambda Literary Award. FRESHWATER was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence, the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, The Wellcome Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and named a 2018 Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, NPR, the Chicago Public Library, and Buzzfeed.

Follow them on social media at @azemezi or check out their website www.akwaeke.com!

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