The heart of Jacob / / by Kyuka Lilymjok.
Jacob prospers as a moneylender and pig merchant by taking advantage of other people's misfortunes. But when he seeks to exploit the famine afflicting his village Tounga by lending money at high interest rates to poor villagers, he does not reckon what a sacrilege his pigs would commit which gi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lagos, Nigeria : : Malthouse Press Limited,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (175 pages) |
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| Summary: | Jacob prospers as a moneylender and pig merchant by taking advantage of other people's misfortunes. But when he seeks to exploit the famine afflicting his village Tounga by lending money at high interest rates to poor villagers, he does not reckon what a sacrilege his pigs would commit which give the people an opportunity to feast on his own misfortune. When this happens community gives way to individual desires, and the stomach dictates to the head what it should think and believe in. Reason bends to absurdity and custom bows to bizarre novelty. Life explodes into a sinister mess that points to only one outcome: Jacob and society's ultimate ruin. |
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| ISBN: | 9789785477580 9789785739985 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Kyuka Lilymjok. |