Sefi Atta was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in She is the author of Everything Good Will Come, Swallow, News from Home, A Bit of Difference and The Bead Collector. Atta has received several literary awards, including the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa Released on: J. · Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference is the type of book you pick up after a week of reading Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle. It gives you a similar protagonist but without the mental press-up. This is not to say that the book is vacuous; it just highlights all of the important issues in a laidback style and that is my favourite thing about it/5. A Bit of Difference - Kindle edition by Atta, Sefi. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A 4/5(38).
I recently came along many interesting Nigerian writers (like Teju Cole, Ben Okri or Helon Habila), and Sefi Atta is my latest discovery.A happy discovery, I might say, as I enjoyed every bit of A Bit of Difference, a book about identity and London, through the eyes of the 39 years old single Deola Bell. Sefi Atta brings to exhilarating life the textures, rhythms and byzantine subtexts of this complex society. It's been a long time since I felt so powerfully immersed in a novel." - Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs "Atta is a seasoned, and masterful storyteller." - Lola Shoneyin, author of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives. Sefi Atta. Sefi Atta is the author of Swallow, News from Home, A Bit of Difference and Sefi Atta: Selected Plays. Sefi has received several literary awards, including the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa and the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. Her radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC and her stage plays have been.
Deola's urgent, incisive voice captivates and guides us through the intricate layers and vivid scenes of a life lived across continents. With Sefi Atta's characteristic boldness and vision, A Bit of Difference limns the complexities of our contemporary world. This is a novel not to be missed. Deola’s urgent, incisive voice captivates and guides us through the intricate layers and vivid scenes of a life lived across continents. With Sefi Atta’s characteristic boldness and vision, A Bit of Difference limns the complexities of our contemporary world. This is a novel not to be missed. The pace of Sefi Atta s latest novel, A Bit of Difference is leisurely; it s deliberately understated in style, but do resist the impulse to dismiss it for a more incendiary read; the story is told entirely from protagonist Deola Bello s point of view, and Deola has a tendency to digress; these digressions do prove crucial, for its Deola s meandering but incisive commentary which elevates this simple story from enjoyable to enlightening.
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