When We Were Fireflies
When We Were Fireflies is a literary fiction novel written by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and published by Masobe Books in 2023.
Reception
[edit]Olukorede Yishau writing for The Lagos Review compared it favourably to Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ben Okri's The Famished Road,[1] praising "his precise and elegant voice".[1] Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera of Open Country Mag gave it a 3.5 star rating, reviewing that it is "one of the best contemporary novels out of Nigeria".[2] Both Yishua and Chukwudera praised Ibrahim's prose-poetry style.[2][1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Yishau, Olukorede S . (14 May 2023). "A magical story of love, hate, redemption and forgiveness: A review of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim's When We Were Fireflies". The Lagos Review. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- ^ a b Chukwudera, Michael Chiedoziem (10 June 2023). "When We Were Fireflies, Reviewed: Memory and the Multitudes of Living". Open Country Mag. Retrieved 17 August 2023.