AKWAEKE
LITTLE ROT
“A masterwork…mesmerizing…We come away troubled, unsettled — and in some subtle way changed.”–The New York Times
US Pub Date: June 18, Riverhead Books
UK Pub Date: July 7, Faber & Faber
Nigeria Pub Date: July 26, Masobe Books
One weekend.
The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.
A party that goes awry.
A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed.
Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the
breakup, visits an exclusive sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a
decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally and suddenly upending their lives.
Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, collide into the
scene just as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city’s corrupt and glittering
underworld, they’re all looking for a way out, fueled by a desperate need to escape the
dangerous threat that looms over them.