Bush Meat

Mandy Sutter

ISBN 10: 1917140126 / ISBN 13: 9781917140126

Published by Parthian Books, GB, 2025

About this Item

WINNER OF THE NEW WELSH WRITING AWARDS 2016.For Sarah's family, memories of early Sixties Aba in south-eastern Nigeria are scorched onto their hearts. As people of that time and place are scattered like bleached bones, Aba acts as centripetal force on their imagination. In twenty closely linked stories, Bushmeat explores an expatriate family's two year stay in1960's Nigeria then moves on to explore its effect on all their lives over the next fifty years. Exploring themes of substitution, racism, and whether the spirit can ever survive transaction.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bush Meat
• Publisher: Parthian Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1917140126
• ISBN 13: 9781917140126
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 12.9W x 2.5H x 19.8D centimeters 12.9 centimeters width by 2.5 centimeters height by 19.8 centimeters depth
• Weight: 222 grams

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Synopsis

For Sarah's family, memories of early Sixties Aba in south-eastern Nigeria are scorched onto their hearts. In twenty closely linked stories, Bushmeat explores an expatriate family’ s two year stay in 1960’ s Nigeria then moves on to explore its effect on all their lives over the next fifty years. Exploring themes of substitution, racism, and whether the spirit can ever survive transaction.

About the Author

Mandy Sutter went to school in Nigeria and Bromley but now lives in Yorkshire. She has co-written two non-fiction books about Somali women. Her first novel, Stretching It, was published in 2013; her third poetry pamphlet, Old Blue Car, in 2015. This novel’ s first chapter, ‘ Bush Meat’ , won first prize in the New Welsh Writing Awards in 2016.