One Leg on Earth

Name: One Leg on Earth
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780349018287
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By 'Pemi Aguda

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'An astonishing talent' Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds 'One of my favourite living writers' Jeff VanderMeer All across the city, pregnant women are walking into water ... Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she... Read More

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One Leg on Earth

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The eagerly awaited debut novel by a literary star in the making: a vivid, mesmerising story about modern Lagos - and the darkness that swirls beneath it

Description

'An astonishing talent' Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds 'One of my favourite living writers' Jeff VanderMeer All across the city, pregnant women are walking into water ...

Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she finds a city of adventure and opportunity. Her new world is one of fancy gallery openings, glamorous friends, and all the shiny potential of the future, encapsulated in projects like Omi City, the brand-new housing development her company is building.

But Yosoye's idyllic vision of Lagos soon begins to seem naive, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her. Something is not right about Omi City, but no-one will give her satisfactory answers. And then, after a chance encounter in her first weeks in Lagos, Yosoye realises that she is pregnant...

A vibrant and atmospheric evocation of modern Lagos, the promises of progress and the mysterious lure of the abyss, One Leg on Earth is a haunting, eerie and arresting story from an unmissable new voice in literature.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349018287

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 May 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

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'Pemi Aguda Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction

About the Author

'Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She is the winner of the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers' Award and a graduate of the Zell MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her work has been published in American Short Fiction, Granta, One Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope and The Best Short Stories 2022 and 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners, edited by Valeria Luiselli (2022) and Lauren Groff (2023), among other publications. Her short-story collection Ghostroots was a finalist for the National Book Award, longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing (for the story 'Breastmilk').