Adam (Paperback) Gboyega Odubanjo (author)

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024
Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards 2024

‘On 21 September 2001, the torso of a black boy was discovered in the River Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London, clothed only in an orange pair of girls’ shorts. Given the name “Adam” by police officers, the unidentified boy was between four and eight years old. What comes next cannot without a story of water and offering. The sun shines and we gather because the river allows it. Na from clap dem dey enter dance. We enter with, and as, Adam.’ – Gboyega Odubanjo

Haunted by the discovery of the remains of a young Black boy in the River Thames in London, 2001, Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam builds from the Genesis myth and from Yoruba culture to examine with an unflinching eye the disappearance of a child and its implication for all Black lives, and for the society in which we live.

Publisher information
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571390403
Number of pages: 88
Dimensions: 204 x 156 mm
Language: English
Edition: Main