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Kyuka Lilymjok

    The Death of Eternity
    The Lone Piper and the Birds' Case
    The Village Tradesman
    Gods of my Fathers
    The Lord Mammon
    Bivan's House
    • Bivan's House

      • 230pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Talgon a small-time contractor in the West African nation called Bivan's house sets out to be honest in his dealings, but finds himself alone in a sizzling corruption that smears the virtuous as much as the crook. In Bivan's house, the vulture by his opportunism is feasting on the ruins of his preys without pity; the tortoise by his cunning is running faster than the antelope to collect, without remorse, prizes he has not won, and the rat by his thievery is filling his barns with the harvest of the rabbit without regret. Flames of violence, frauds and scams blaze a trail that leaves Talgon wondering how it all began and where it will leave the West African nation called Bivan's house.Born 24th Sept. 1965, Kyuka Lilymjok hails from Bafai-Kanai. He is a professor of law and lectures at the Faculty of Law Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Other published novels of the author include: The Lone Piper and the Birds' Case, Sieged, and Broke.

      Bivan's House
    • The Lord Mammon

      • 274pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      Gojang is a pastor that prefers mammon to Christ. Josira is a lady of easy virtue to whom work is an enemy. The Prince is an armed-robber with a rare vision that will change the destiny of all men on earth. Money, which the Prince calls the Lord Mammon and the common friend leads the paths of these disparate people into the halls of deception, intrigues and shame, and the cults of Satanism bestiality and death.

      The Lord Mammon
    • Gods of my Fathers

      • 62pages
      • 3 heures de lecture

      Before his death, Dendo's father charges him to stick with his ancestral gods. After his father's death, Dendo abandons the gods of his fathers for an alien god - a decision that sets him on a warpath with his ancestors out to recover him from the life of a dog to that of a wolf; from the life of an idiot to that of a genius.

      Gods of my Fathers
    • The Village Tradesman

      • 200pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      The story of Mallam Nuhu the village tradesman, is the story of industry and perseverance, the hope and despair of ambition and the hypocrisy of a man's life in society. Inspiring anecdotes and engaging allegories give breath and rhythm to this unusual story. The author by a lively language full of poetic undertones creates a sense of urgent drama and a fascinating atmosphere that is as involving as it is gripping.

      The Village Tradesman
    • The Lone Piper and the Birds' Case

      • 138pages
      • 5 heures de lecture

      Among the birds of Kirkina savannah, no bird can sing like the Lone Piper – a black-crested bird. When a strange disease the birds suspect is spread among them by aircrafts flying over the savannah begins to afflict the birds, the lone piper by unheard melodies and moving rhapsodies roused the birds to a war on aircrafts that shocks and stuns the world.

      The Lone Piper and the Birds' Case
    • The Death of Eternity

      • 510pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      Tibor, a Hungarian eco-activist, has some shocking news for residents of the West African village of Nunsa: They are at the centre of a new Bermuda Triangle in which industrial pollution, AIDs and terrorism combine to create an environment from which no one may escape alive.In Hungary, Tibor has problems - a frustrated girlfriend, a wayward brother and the mysterious whereabouts of his mother's corpse. But these are dwarfed by the daunting mission he undertakes in Africa. Tibor becomes a messiah-figure to the villagers, the strange white man, and leads them in a struggle against global industry. Faced with ignorance, corruption and assassination plots, Tibor must adopt increasingly extreme methods. But how far is he prepared to go in his campaign of terror. Is terror the only means of change? And will even that be enough to prevent the ultimate threat to all living creatures, the death of eternity?

      The Death of Eternity
    • Stupid

      • 102pages
      • 4 heures de lecture

      Charged by vanity and pride, Tata is colourful in appearance and arrogant in behaviour. Though vanity and arrogance keep exploding in his face, Tata as his father before him, is beyond the lessons served by experience. Beyond the lessons of life, Tata bubbles on to a sorrowful end.

      Stupid
    • Hope in Anarchy

      • 226pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      Like every child, Ahoka has the right to dream and hope. But he is the son of Solo a poor ex-service man living under a bridge in Beku-city. Because of lack of means, Ahoka finds his dreams and hope betrayed to the mosquitoes of Asabeni Lagoon where he sleeps, the streets of Beku which he roams picking discarded bottles for sale to bottling companies, and the sand of Hacul beach where he fetches seawater for sale.Order has failed the poor of the republic where government is a joke, where judges do not remember justice and police have forgotten they are not armed robbers. Jokulo an anarchist whispers a secret into the ears of the poor, and from then on, hope in the republic is to be found only in anarchy. This is the moving story of the innocence of hope and the tragedy of betrayal.

      Hope in Anarchy
    • The Deportee

      • 102pages
      • 4 heures de lecture

      Deported from Russia after thirty years of Sojourn, ill-treated by relations in Nigeria, Morgan the deportee goes mad leaving behind many unasked as unanswered questions.

      The Deportee
    • Farewell to Peace

      • 124pages
      • 5 heures de lecture

      Belaru loses his parents to death and becomes an orphan at the age of seven. He blames free trade for his parents' death. If the textile company his father was working had not been killed by free trade, his father wouldn't have lost his job. If his father had not lost his job, he wouldn't have died. If his father had not died, his mother wouldn't have become heartbroken and died soon thereafter. From a deep sense of injustice, Belaru later launches a blistering war against an international economic order that operates by the rules of might is right. For Belaru and his Tendu-Purgers, it is farewell to peace for the world if developed nations insist on perpetuating might is right.

      Farewell to Peace