World Literature: Samuel Kọ́láwọlé (Nigeria) “The Road to the Salt Sea”

Nigerian author visits City of Asylum to share “wrenching and luminous” debut novel Debut novelist Samuel Kọ́láwọlé visits city of Asylum to share The Road to the Salt Sea, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy. The novel follows Able God, a man working for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his “toothpaste-white smile” for wealthy guests. Able’s ordinary life is upended when an early morning room service order leads him to interfere with Akudo, a sex worker involved with a powerful but dangerous hotel guest. Suddenly...