Diaspora City: The London New Writing Anthology
Diaspora City: The London New Writing Anthology
Ben Okri
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A cabbie reveals a London of the mind to his passengers. A young Gambian discovers love and betrayal after a chance encounter on the Underground. A waiter from Senegal provides an alphabetic tour of London while elsewhere we encounter young Londoners' experiences in various postal codes. An elderly man finds 'every colour under the sun' in a mixed East End primary school and a gay Cypriot realizes that gay love and traditional marriage don't mix.Diaspora City celebrates the multicultural diversity of London's life. The anthology features new fiction by previously unpublished Londoners and includes specially commissioned works by John Berger, Maggie Gee, Toby Litt, Ben Okri, Iain Sinclair and A. Sivanandan.
A cabbie reveals a London of the mind to his passengers. A young Gambian discovers love and betrayal after a chance encounter on the Underground. A waiter from Senegal provides an alphabetic tour of London while elsewhere we encounter young Londoners' experiences in various postal codes. An elderly man finds 'every colour under the sun' in a mixed East End primary school and a gay Cypriot realizes that gay love and traditional marriage don't mix.Diaspora City celebrates the multicultural diversity of London's life. The anthology features new fiction by previously unpublished Londoners and includes specially commissioned works by John Berger, Maggie Gee, Toby Litt, Ben Okri, Iain Sinclair and A. Sivanandan.
Ben Okri
Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. Much of his early...
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