Lemon Grass Nwelue Onyeka
Lemon Grass Nwelue Onyeka "Let us start from the beginning of this story when God created the heaven and the earth. It looked deep, like a well without water. Shapeless earth; nothing was real. Its…
Specifikacia Lemon Grass Nwelue Onyeka
Lemon Grass Nwelue Onyeka
"Let us start from the beginning of this story when God created the heaven and the earth. It looked deep, like a well without water. Shapeless earth; nothing was real.
Its extraordinariness was brought about by the omnipotence of God. Everything seemed ordinary. God solidified everything."So, begin the opening lines of Onyeka Nwelue's Lemon Grass, where a young patient at the Neuro-Psychiatry Hospital in Yaba, Lagos, tells other patients his story, of how he had travelled from the Biblical Sodom to Lagos.It is a retelling of the Biblical creation story.
But the story soon jumps, to the occasion of Lot, his wife and his daughters. Only that the narrator's story is an escapee of the inferno.He is in the police cell when he is rescued by a Catholic priest, Father Ajayi, who takes him to Rome. In Rome, the narrator goes to confession and