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Colours of Hatred Obinna Udenwe

Colours of Hatred By Obinna Udenwe

Colours of Hatred by Obinna Udenwe


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In this politically charged thriller, money and power make love a deadly game of an eye for an eye.This prize-winning psychological thriller follows Leona, a model whose father asks her to embark on a journey of love, betrayal and murder.

Colours of Hatred Summary

Colours of Hatred by Obinna Udenwe

When in service of money and power, is love a deadly game of an eye for an eye?

In this politically charged thriller, Leona, an internationally renowned Sudanese-Nigerian model was in her youth asked by her father to marry Akinola, a billionaire and son of his rival and kill him afterwards, to avenge her mother.

Now on her deathbed, Leona is driven to confess her sins and find absolution.

But how does one begin to do that? For as dastardly as the sin, it was an act of love, loyalty, disobedience, and perceived fairness.

Set against a background of real events, Colours of Hatred is a complex web of plots detailing how one woman moved from childhood through the fire and anvil of love, loss, longing, lust, and duty.... to become a woman whose life stands for mpre than another person's bitter machinations.

About Obinna Udenwe

Obinna Udenwe is a Nigerian novelist and short story writer. He is the winner of the first edition of The Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature in 2021 for Colours of Hatred which was also a finalist for the 2021 NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature. His first book, Satans & Shaitans won the ANA Prize for Prose Fiction 2015.

His short stories have won The Prairie Schooner-Glenna Luschei Prize 2020, The Short Story is Dead Prize 2016 and was a finalist in the Prairie Schooner-Raz Shumaker Prize 2020. His story, 'It Has to do with Emilia', was acquired for film & television in 2020 by Bridget Pickering at Bump films, shot in Yeoville, South Africa in 2021 and released in March 2022. His stories have appeared in Gutter Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Munyori Literary Journal, The Village Square Journal, Fiction 365, Brittle Paper, ANA Review, Ake Review, Expound Magazine, The Kalahari Review, The Short Story is Dead anthology Vol., 1 & 2, and many more. He is the author of a short stories collection, The Widow Who Died With Flowers in Her Mouth, a chapbook, The Brief Story of the New Love Software, and the novella, Holy Sex.

He lives in Abakaliki in southern Nigeria where he works as a writer, engineer and farmer, and is very active in local politics.

Additional information

GOR013940558
9781914344329
1914344324
Colours of Hatred by Obinna Udenwe
Used - Like New
Paperback
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
2024-09-26
320
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