Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home

By Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Beginning in the late 1980s, northern Nigeria saw a boom in popular fiction written in the Hausa language. Known as littattafan soyayya ("love literature"), the books are often inspired by Hindi films-which have been hugely popular among Hausa speakers for decades-and are primarily written by women. They have sparked a craze among young adult readers as well as a backlash from government censors and book-burning conservatives.

Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home is an Islamic soap opera complete with polygamous households, virtuous women, scheming harlots, and black magic. It's the first full-length novel ever translated from Hausa to English. And it's quite unlike anything you've ever read before.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9381626847
• ISBN13: 9789381626849
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Blaft Publications
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"