Every Drop of Blood Is Red

Novel

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This book will become available from November 18, 2024.
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Lives intersect for a young woman on a quest for revenge and a family man with a violent past in this haunting and provocative novel by the author of Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold.

In Jos, Nigeria, Dareng Pamson is slowly winning back the trust of his pregnant wife after his infidelity shook their marriage. When a young Muslim woman comes in out of the rain looking for work in Dareng’s auto repair shop, Dareng cautiously agreesagainst his better judgment. She’s passionate and willing to learn. Besides, it’s time he started doing things differently.

After being back in her hometown for only a week, Murmula Denge finds who she’s looking for: Dareng, the Christian man whose cold-hearted ambition and greed shattered her family. At first, she wants only to destroy his tenuous peace by introducing chaos. Until Murmula realises that for true closure and justice, she must go to extremes. Blood for blood.

Neither is prepared for the mysterious turning point that changes their lives forever. As they navigate the quandary of faith and the strange new ties that bind them, coming to terms with the past is only the beginning.

Umar Turaki

Umar Turaki is a writer and filmmaker from Jos, Nigeria. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Every Drop of Blood Is Red is his second novel. For more information, visit www.umarturaki.com.

“Every Drop of Blood Is Red marries a thrilling, twisty premise with a moral inquiry about where we’re taken once we reach the end point of vengeance. Umar Turaki is among the most dazzling and inventive novelists I’ve come upon in years.”

—Kevin Chong, The Double Life of Benson Yu

“Umar Turaki’s Every Drop of Blood is Red captures the loss of innocence, not only of the beautiful Murmula, but of an entire city torn apart by differences, yet held together by a festering wound and an incendiary love. Turaki’s disarming prose breathes life into the history of a city, its scarred people, and one woman’s quest to right a wrong. A novel of the intricacies of wrath and redemption.”

—Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, author of When We Were Fireflies

“With this new novel, Turaki paints a wrenching portrait of a contemporary Nigeria haunted by the violence of its recent past, and how unresolved traumas still plague its futures—in this instance, through the lives of its victims whose trajectories both shock and break our hearts. At the end, Every Drop of Blood is Red promises healing and hope, and a sign of good things to come, only if we are brave enough to confront those difficult subjects."

—Ukamaka Olisakwe, author of Ogadinma

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Book Trim140 x 216mm
Number of Pages316
ISBN (Paperback)978-978-60501-7-1
Release DateNovember 18, 2024

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