{"product_id":"wilderness-of-mirrors-9781632063984","title":"Wilderness of Mirrors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExquisitely written and deeply absorbing, this debut from Caine Prize-winning author Olufemi Terry captures the heady abandon of early adulthood in a country still reeling from the lasting effects of racial partition and colonialism.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen his father suggests that he take some time off to visit his cousin, Emil--a young surgeon-in-training--doesn't ask many questions. For reasons he doesn't yet understand, he sets aside his studies and moves into his aunt's house in Stadmutter, a remote multiracial African city. There, he is disquieted by days of unaccustomed aimlessness and by encounters with Bolling, a wealthy foreigner who woos him intellectually and sexually, and Tamsin, a psychology student working to define herself against the fading privilege of her background.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath a veneer of indolence, Stadmutter seethes. Bolling is covertly working with Braeem Shaka, an advocate for reparations, to foment racial tension that imperils the country's fragile progress. As Shaka becomes a wanted man, Emil and Tamsin grow entangled in his future and that of a country they are both eager to escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerry, Olufemi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOlufemi Terry\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Sierra-Leone born writer, essayist and journalist living in Germany and Cote d'Ivoire. His short fiction has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review, Guernica, Chimurenga, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Granta Book of the African Short Story, \u003c\/i\u003e and translated into French and German. His nonfiction essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar, Africa is a Country, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been the International Writer-in-Residence at Cove Park, Scotland and a Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University's Lannan Center for Poetics \u0026amp; Social Practice in Washington, DC. In 2019, he received a Washington DC Arts \u0026amp; Humanities Grant. A former juror of the Miles Morland Scholarship and the AKO Caine Prize for African writing, he is the 2010 winner of the Caine Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589865275666,"sku":"9781632063984","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dd9405bb-0c65-41c6-8c9b-a230df636f7e.jpg?v=1756811272","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wilderness-of-mirrors-9781632063984","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}