The death of vivek oji author6/9/2023 But as The Death of Vivek Oji goes on, and Vivek’s mother Kasita becomes our detective, trying to solve the death of her son, Emezi refuses to follow the template of the genre. And on the day he died, the market in Ngwa, the Nigerian town where he lived, was burned down.Ī classic murder mystery would have us spend the rest of the novel hunting for the ne’er-do-well who killed Vivek, scanning all his closest connections for the motive that would have them commit such a dastardly crime. That line is all that exists of the first chapter, and it’s all we need to know: Vivek Oji lived, and now he is dead. “They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died,” Emezi writes, in the novel’s opening line. Vivek Oji begins, like all murder mysteries do, with a death. Probably the best advice I’ve come across when it comes to reading Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji, the Vox Book Club’s April pick, is to treat it as an inverted murder mystery. The Vox Book Club is linking to to support local and independent booksellers.
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