No One Dies Yet
Kobby Ben Ben
(Author)
Description
A genre-breaking novel from a powerful new African voice
It is 2019, The Year of Return. Ghana is inviting Black diasporans to return and get to know the land of their enslaved ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to explore Ghana's colonial past, and to experience the country's underground queer scene. Their visit and activities are narrated by two very different Ghanians: the exuberant and rebellious Kobby, who is their guide to Accra's privileged and queer circles; and Nana, the voice of tradition and religious principle. Neither is very trustworthy and the tense relationship between them sets the tone for what turns into a gripping, energetically told, and often funny tale of murder reminiscent of the novels of Patricia Highsmith, Graham Greene, Chinua Achebe, and Alain Mabanckou.
Product Details
| Publisher | Europa Editions |
| Publish Date | February 13, 2024 |
| Pages | 384 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781609457563 |
| Dimensions | 8.2 X 5.1 X 1.0 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Kobby Ben Ben was born in Ghana, where he is a prominent book reviewer and runs the African Book Club and the Ghana Must Read website. His eccentric Instagram book blog, @bookworm_man, has caught the attention of Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo, as well as Maaza Mengiste and Petina Gappah, among others. No One Dies Yet is his first novel.
Reviews
★ "Three American gay men travel to Ghana to pay homage to their enslaved ancestors and explore the country's queer underground scene in the audacious debut from Ghanaian book critic Ben Ben...wildly inventive...The sheer wonder of Ben Ben's narrative design anchors the reader in the immersive maelstrom of voices. The results are propulsive and deliciously irreverent in equal measure."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
★ "A cinematic, cutting, and smart debut novel...Ben Ben rejects prevailing colonial narratives with this graphic rock opera of murder, sex, and tourism."--Booklist (starred review)
"Kobby Ben Ben's debut, No One Dies Yet, is fascinating, funny, surreal, and provocative, its genre-warping murder tale fusing queer autofiction with geopolitics and mystery with erotica."--ELLE Magazine
"Neither [narrator] is very trustworthy and the tense relationship between them sets the tone for what turns into a gripping, energetically told, and often funny tale of murder reminiscent of the novels of Patricia Highsmith, Graham Greene, Chinua Achebe, and Alain Mabanckou."--Deadly Pleasures
"Dark, unsettling, utterly addictive."--African Arguments
"We're walked through the who and why in a sometimes funny, sometimes spicy tale."--Book Riot
"This may be one of my favorite novels ever. It's so funny. It's like Patricia Highsmith traded her self-loathing for a decent sense of humor."--CrimeReads
"A book that brims with possibilities, contradictions, jokes, puzzles, detours, ambiguities, secrets and metafictional tricks and twists."--Yagnishsing Dawoor, The Guardian
"[Kobby and Nana's] tense relationship sets the tone for what becomes a shocking and unsettling tale of murder that is at times funny, at times erotic, yet always outspoken and iconoclastic."--The Sunday Times (Zambia)
"A tale that challenges our very understanding of life and death."--Newzroom Afrika
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