Overview
"The elegance of each story dosed me with mystery that I hadn’t experienced in reading for a long time. [...] This is a collection to bring to bed; slip yourself one story and leave the next for the following night"
"There is always a joy in coming across an author you have not encountered before, and enjoying their work so much that they are added to your must-read list. [...] Black Friday is an excellent collection and one that I will return to again. As for Cheryl Ntumy, I look forward to reading her next work with great interest. Highly recommended."Cheryl S. Ntumy''s fantasy and near-future sci-fi is powerful and unique. Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa is a collection of short stories exploring diverse themes ranging from rampant consumerism, corruption and oppression to community-building, faith, reclamation and healing, all with a speculative bent.
Explore solarpunk set in Ghana, cyberpunk set in South Africa and dystopian fiction set in Botswana. Robots and aliens. Butterflies and elephants. Wedding dresses that make brides happy and electrified dresses that hold queens hostage. Consumer culture and permaculture.
These are dark, sometimes bleak stories of war, grief and disillusionment, but also optimistic, wholesome tales of love, regeneration and hope. With mysteries, magical realism and cautionary tales, the collection has something for everyone.
The Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.
- | Author: Cheryl S. Ntumy
- | Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
- | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2025
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781835623022
- | ISBN-10: 1835623026
