Lawless and Other Stories - Sefi Atta

# Publisher: Kachifo Ltd (2008)
# ASIN: B001E17H14



Sefi Atta writes like one who has lived the life of each single character in her dazzling collection of short stories. The reader comes off with the sense of a story teller who is so in tune with the suffering and other life happenstances of her characters, that the reader is bound to find a commonality with them—be it cultural, psychological, social, or human.

Sefi Atta's stories evoke profound moral, ethical, and cultural questions most contemporary African writers find uncomfortable to tackle in their works. And the beauty of her writing is that she does all this in a quietly defiant manner, and at such a high aesthetic and artistic level, that one never feels the harshness of these questions at the time of reading, until hours or days after putting down the story.