The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

'A blazing debut - smart; subversive; funny; heartbreaking. I'm already impatient for Buoro's next book' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'I fell in love immediately . . . Hilarious' MAX PORTER 'Wonderfully vivid . . . Instantly engaging' IAN RANKIN Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora; Nigeria; where his days are spent about town with his droogs; Slim and Morocca; grappling with his fantasies about white girls - especially blondes - and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church; at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes'; he obsesses over mathematical theorems; ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa. Sure enough; the reluctantly nicknamed 'Andy Africa' soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on; Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival; multiple crises loom. An unfamiliar man claims; despite his mother's denials; to be Andy's father; and the gathering of an anti-Christian mob is headed for the church - both set to shake the foundations of everything Andy knows and loves. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa announces a dazzling; distinctive; new literary voice. Profound; exhilarating and highly original; this tragicomic novel is a stunning exploration of the contemporary African 'condition'; the relentless infiltration of Western culture and; most of all; the ordinary but impossible challenges of coming of age in a turbulent world