The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa: Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards 2023 (Paperback) - Stephen Buoro

** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST AND BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2023 ** ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023: DEBUT FICTION ** 'A voice unlike any other' OBSERVER 'I fell in love immediately' MAX PORTER 'A writer of imagination and flair' ECONOMIST 'Smart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'Buoro's writing deserves to inspire a generation of superheroes' THE TIMES Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his friends, grappling with his fantasies about white girls (especially blondes) and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of Black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa. Sure enough, Andy soon falls for the first white girl he lays eyes on. But multiple crises are looming, set to shake the foundations of everything he knows and loves... 'This is extraordinary, driven by a gloriously eccentric central character. It is utterly compelling, not shy about posing difficult questions for the reader' 2023 NERO PRIZE JUDGES

About the Author

Stephen Buoro was born in Nigeria in 1993. He has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia as well as a first class degree in Mathematics, and is a recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. He was awarded second place in the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award, and is currently studying for a fully-funded PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at UEA. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa is his first novel.