I am beyond excited that this novel is out in the world! If you are in the United Kingdom please grab a copy...and if you're not, buy it online.
To all the early readers who have read, reviewed and raved about the book, I am truly grateful. You took the trouble and time to see what this unknown writer had done. Seeing Ian McEwan's public praise, coming from a writer I have admired for decades, is a moment I will forever treasure.
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I've read and admired Ian McEwan's work for two decades. It feels surreal to find out he is reading my debut novel The Comfort of Distant Stars and thinks it "amazing"!
See his interview:
https://the.ink/p/ian-mcewan-on-the-world-after-climate
Huge congratulations to @ioecheruo and @tahmima ! Their novels A COMFORT OF DISTANT STARS and UPRISING have been respectively shortlisted for the @theorwellprize for political fiction!
On A Comfort of Distant Stars, the judges said:
‘This novel is energetic, & stylish, & asks a sharp political question: who gets to describe the way you experience the world? It moves between its different modes — scientific, psychological, supernatural or semi-divine — so seamlessly, which in contemporary fiction is rare. I hadn’t read I.O. Echeruo before. His writing has been, for me, the discovery of the process so far.’
And on Uprising they said:
‘Dark, intense and powerful, this is a heart-breaking story of women and children enslaved on a small island. Uprising presents us with several women’s trajectories as they are abducted or coerced into believing they were escaping poverty, only to be become prisoners and sex workers. When a newcomer opens the door for these women and their island-born children, will they find the means to defy the caste system, child abuse and gender hierarchies? Uprising will leave you breathless.’
Congratulations both!
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The Comfort of Distant Stars in the Financial Times
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" ...an enthralling story of science, faith, identity and human connection" The Big Issue Magazine review
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“Ezeani’s story dazzles with originality and sparkle in this multi-layered debut. You could write a thesis on it” Suzanne Harrington reviewing The Comfort of Distant Stars. Link in bio to read in full #review #debut #novel #writer
Jeet Thayil is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. His first novel, Narcopolis, (2012), won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and The Hindu Literary Prize. He is the author of several poetry collections, including These Errors Are Correct (2008), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
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What would you do if your genius came with a cost? ☀️
Ezeani has always seen things others can’t.
But in a new country, far from home, one presence refuses to leave him alone—Anyanwu.
Is it memory? Myth? Madness?
Or something far more dangerous?
At what point do you stop trusting your own mind?
The Comfort of Distant Stars is now available on the Masobe App !
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M.G. Vassanji is a celebrated Canadian author, best known as the first two-time winner of the Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious literary prize.
He has a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from the University of Pennsylvania.
He has won multiple Governor General’s Literary Awards for both fiction and non-fiction and is a member of the Order of Canada.
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Now Out and available from masobebooks.com, MasobeApp, and leading bookstores near you.
Ezeani is no ordinary child. He sees things others don’t.
Despite the burden of these visions, his precocious nature blossoms into genius and Ezeani grows up to be a gifted mathematician and physicist. When he leaves Nigeria and his adoring family behind to study at Cornell in the US, he remains haunted by his most persistent vision, Anyanwu, the Sun God. While Ezeani is adjusting to his new life in America, Anyanwu’s presence takes on an increasingly sinister and malevolent form—and chaos reigns. It’s enough to make anyone lose their grip on reality.
The Comfort of Distant Stars is a bold coming-of-age tale blending physics, philosophy and Igbo cosmology, examining how we understand our place in the universe. It ponders the big questions we all ask ourselves about the nature of time and of being—ultimately revealing the startling vulnerability of the human mind.
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Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also named to the 2019 Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Master's degrees as a Rhodes Scholar.
Tope Folarin on THE COMFORT OF DISTANT STARS
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Day 75/100: The Comfort of Distant Stars by I. O. Echeruo
Ezeani is no ordinary child. He sees things others don’t. Despite the burden of these visions, his precocious nature blossoms into genius and Ezeani grows up to be a gifted mathematician and physicist. When he leaves Nigeria and his adoring family behind to study at Cornell in the US, he remains haunted by his most persistent vision of Anyanwu, the Sun God. While Ezeani is adjusting to his new life in America, Anyanwu’s presence takes on an increasingly sinister and malevolent form – and chaos reigns. It’s enough to make anyone lose their grip on reality.
The Comfort of Distant Stars is a bold coming-of-age tale blending physics, philosophy and Igbo cosmology, examining how we understand our place in the universe.
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