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Wilderness of Mirrors
Wilderness of Mirrors
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By Olufemi Terry
Exquisite and absorbing, this debut from Caine Prize–winning author Olufemi Terry captures the heady abandon of early adulthood in an Africa still reeling from the lasting effects of colonialism and racial Partition.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063984
Publication Date: Sept. 9, 2025
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When his father suggests he take time off to visit estranged relatives, Emil—a young surgeon-in-training—sets aside his studies and, for reasons he doesn’t yet understand, moves to Stadmutter, a multiracial city at the southern tip of Africa. There, he is disquieted by days of unaccustomed aimlessness and by his encounters with Bolling, a wealthy Haitian-German who woos him intellectually and sexually, and with Tamsin, a PhD student working to define herself against her country’s shifting cultural hierarchies.
Beneath a veneer of indolence, Stadmutter seethes. As Bolling’s covert support for an upstart Creole movement threatens decades of racial progress, Emil is drawn increasingly toward exile.
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Paperback ISBN: 9781632063984 • $17
Publication date: Sept. 9, 2025
5" x 7.125" • 256 pages
Fiction: World Literature / Africa / Diversity & Multicultural / Literary / Political / Family Life / General
Rights: North America, Audio
Olufemi Terry is a Sierra Leone–born writer, essayist, and journalist. His short fiction has been published in Guernica, The Georgia Review, Chimurenga, and The Granta Book of the African Short Story, and translated into French and German. His nonfiction essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Africa is a Country, and The Guardian. He was an International Writer-in-Residence at Cove Park, Scotland, and a Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University’s Lannan Center for Poetics & Social Practice in Washington, DC. In 2019, he received a grant from the Washington, DC, Commission on the Arts & Humanities. He is the 2010 winner of the Caine Prize for his story “Stickfighting Days.” He lives in Germany and Côte d’Ivoire.