These Blazing Suns

Nincemon Fallé

Tina Kover

Key Selling Points:

• Winner of the 2024 "Voix d'Afriques" prize; and of the Prix Litteraire de la Vocation 2024
• Partly autobiographical novel, published when the author was 22

Target Readership:

• A contemporary take on the Ahmadou Kouroma’s masterpiece of modern African literature The Suns of Independence, These Blazing Suns will appeal to readers of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, and Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
• For readers who enjoyed Small Worlds by Caleb Azuma Nelson, A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo, Hold by Michael Donkor, The Return by Hisham Matar, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini