Speak No Evil

Resumen del libro

'Elegant and elegiac' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Guardian 'A writer of spectacular talent' ObserverOn the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, DC, he's a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard, his prospects are bright.

But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer - an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except his best friend, Meredith - the one person who seems not to judge him. When his father accidentally finds out, the fallout is brutal and swift.

Coping with troubles of her own, however, Meredith finds that she has little left emotionally to offer him. As the two friends struggle to reconcile their desires against the expectations and institutions that seek to define them, they find themselves speeding towards a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Neither will escape unscathed.

Speak No Evil is a novel about the power of words and self-identification, about who gets to speak and who has the power to speak for other people.

Biografía del autor

Uzodinma Iweala (1982) recibió por Bestias sin patria los premios Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum a la primera novela, el Sue Kaufman a la primera novela de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras, el New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, y el John Llewellyn Rhys. La revista " Granta " lo ha señalado como uno de los mejores narradores jóvenes de Estados Unidos. Es licenciado en Harvard y en la Facultad de Medicina y Cirugía de la Universidad de Columbia.