"...punchy and awkward and well worth reading."
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| Me, at the launch in Storymoja Festival 2014 |
"perfectly poised between the robustness of genre fiction and the more literary concern"
"...punchy and awkward and well worth reading."
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| Me, at the launch in Storymoja Festival 2014 |
"perfectly poised between the robustness of genre fiction and the more literary concern"
"From the first page of the of the first story, I felt that surge of anticipation of the possibility of something really special coming....." Binyavanga Wainaina on Facebook on Tuesday, August 25, 2015
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Am about halfway through Dilman Dila's collection of short stories, A Killing in the Sun. From the first page of the first one, felt that surge of anticipation of the possibility of something really special coming. With the best books, you sense it very early, and unconsciously. It is a kind of body-mind tingle, and then my buttocks shuffle about on the bench and I hunch forward to tunnel forward, and my eyes are now on eat, gobble, and eventually devour, and time disappears and I lift my eyes halfway through the book with a very familiar and rare fear (that it is going to end soon and life as I know it will be drab). For now, I have no grand things to say, except, fuck Facebook, I am diving back into the spell, only gently so I can draw it out. somehow.
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"Many have been raving about Ugandan writer Dilman Dila, whose short story collection A Killing in the Sun (Black Letter Media) is what I want to spend my Christmas reading."
"...as I read story after story, many times miserly-like, I kept being grateful that I hadn’t put it off any longer. It surpassed my expectations...... read A Killing in the Sun. You’ll be pleasantly surprised."Hannah Onoguwe http://books.alextwino.com/a-killing-in-the-sun-dilman-dila/
"This short story collection by Ugandan writer, Dilman Dila, is sheer entertainment with a thick seam of seriousness....The beauty of these stories is that each in their own way shows a human side, of people who love, hate, fear and yearn. Dila’s wonderful imagination lifts this collection into an alien yet familiar space, where the ‘other’ is lampooned in a fantastical way. "
Penny de Vries, African Writing Book Reviews,
"Intriguing.... There is a lot of pretty rich writing... rich storyteling..." Sunday Recommendations: Books and Podcasts https://youtu.be/-xE71byf_8I
"Memorable. Well plotted, well edited, with a cool Afro flavor in each story."
Zukiswa Wanner
"Still turning pages. Will I get up tomorrow AM!" Vincho
"A treat for readers."
Beverly Nambozo, in The Daily Monitor
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