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Oil on Water

Helon Habila

  • 232 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 2010
  • 8 editions
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1 About this book

Oil on Water is a 2010 petrofiction novel by Nigerian author Helon Habila. The novel documents the experience of two journalists as they try to rescue a kidnapped European wife in the oil landscape of the Niger Delta. The novel explores the ecological and political consequences of oil conflict and petrodollars in the delta.

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  • Thrillers
  • Nigeria
  • Kidnapping victims
  • Corruption
  • Journalists
  • Missing persons
  • Kidnapping
  • Journalistes

2 About Helon Habila

Born 1967

Helon Habila Ngalabak (born November 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001. He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria before moving in 2002 to England, where he was a Chevening Scholar at the University of East Anglia, and now teaches creative writing at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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