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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Lilymjok, Kyuka, author. The heart of Jacob / by Kyuka Lilymjok. Lagos, Nigeria : Malthouse Press Limited, 2017. 1 online resource (175 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Nigerian fiction (English) Moneylenders. Electronic books. Print version: Lilymjok, Kyuka. Heart of Jacob. Lagos, Nigeria : Malthouse Press Limited, 2017 175 pages 9789785477580 ProQuest (Firm) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=5945116 Click to View |
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