

Oil on Water
Author: Helon Habila
Narrator: Richard Allen
Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 05/16/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Helon Habila
Narrator: Richard Allen
Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Published: 05/16/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Helon Habila is the author of the novels Waiting for an Angel, Measuring Time, Oil on Water, and Travelers, as well as a nonfiction book, The Chibok Girls. His writing has won numerous awards, including the Caine Prize, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the Windham-Campbell Prize. He is professor of creative writing at George Mason University and lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.
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