Oil On Water

Summary

“A vivid evocation of the embattled, disappearing world of the Niger delta. . It makes for particularly thought-provoking reading when the fallout from BP’s calamitous oil spill off the coast of Florida is still front-page news. . . . There is a shimmering waterlike quality to the rhythms, cadences and fluidity of Habila’s precise prose: the narrative can meander, eddy, then plunge forward, but it grips the reader to the end.”
—Patricia Nicol, Sunday Times (London)