When We Were Fireflies is a literary fiction novel written by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and published by Masobe Books in 2023.
Reception edit
Olukorede Yishau writing for The Lagos Review compared it favourably to Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ben Okri's The Famished Road,[1] praising "his precise and elegant voice".[1] Michael Chiedoziem Chukwudera of Open Country Mag gave it a 3.5 star rating, reviewing that it is "one of the best contemporary novels out of Nigeria".[2] Both Yishua and Chukwudera praised Ibrahim's prose-poetry style.[2][1]
References edit
- ^ a b c Yishau, Olukorede S . (14 May 2023). "A magical story of love, hate, redemption and forgiveness: A review of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim's When We Were Fireflies". The Lagos Review. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- ^ a b Chukwudera, Michael Chiedoziem (10 June 2023). "When We Were Fireflies, Reviewed: Memory and the Multitudes of Living". Open Country Mag. Retrieved 17 August 2023.