Season of Crimson Blossoms

Binta Zubairu, a widow of fifty-five, has spent her life as the dutiful wife, mother and believer that her conservative community in northern Nigeria expects. Reza is twenty-five, a street tough who deals weed and does violent work for powerful men, with a mother who left him and an uncertain future. A chance encounter brings them together, and each finds in the other something long missing: tenderness, the feeling of being wanted, a way through loneliness and grief. Their age difference puts the affair beyond anything their neighbours would accept, and as it deepens, discovery threatens their families, their reputations and their lives.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

347 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Nigeria

First published

2015 by Parrésia Publishers

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9789789499908 (Parrésia Publishers, Nigeria)

9781911115007 (Cassava Republic Press, United Kingdom)

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