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02649aam a2200337 i 4500 001 A0141598383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 240220s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2024007105 020 $a 0063050862 020 $a 9780063050860 020 $a 0063050854 020 $a 9780063050853 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1401905286 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d TOH $d TP7 $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3611.O58238 $b R65 2024 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20240220 100 1 $a Kolawole, Samuel Oluwatosin, $e author. 245 14 $a The road to the salt sea / $c Samuel KoÌ£ÌlaÌwoÌ£leÌ. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2024. 263 $a 2407 300 $a 304 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice. Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his "toothpaste-white smile" for wealthy guests. When not tending to the hotel's overprivileged clientele, he muses over self-help books and draws life lessons from the game of chess. But Able's ordinary life is upended when an early morning room service order leads him to interfere with Akudo, a sex worker involved with a powerful but dangerous hotel guest. Suddenly caught in a web of violence, guilt, and fear, Able must run to save himself -- a journey that leads him into the desert with a group of drug-addled migrants, headed by a charismatic religious leader calling himself Ben Ten. The travelers' dream of reaching Europe -- and a new life -- is shattered when they fall prey to human traffickers, suffer starvation, and find themselves on the precipice of death, fighting for their lives and their freedom. As Able God moves into the treacherous unknown, his consciousness becomes focused on survival and the foundations of his beliefs -- his ideas about betterment and salvation -- are forever altered. Suspenseful, incisive, and illuminating, The Road to the Salt Sea is a story of family, fate, religion, survival, the failures of the Nigerian class system, and what often happens to those who seek their fortunes elsewhere."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Human trafficking $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Nigeria $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240702033138.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A0141598383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search