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Some Kind of Black

(1996)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1997 Betty Trask Prize (nominee)
1996 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award

A coming of age story about Dele, a young student, and his sister Dapo whp glide through love, politics and violence; Diran Adebayo's debut is funny, street-smart fiction which puts language through hoops to create an exhilarating odyssey through the London scene.


Genre: General Fiction

Praise for this book

"Funny, smart and attractively tough... magnificent and seductively Nineties." - Julie Myerson


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