The Comfort of Distant Stars

''This audacious, brilliant novel has it all'' CHIKA UNIGWE ''Expansive, elegant and pathbreaking'' TOPE FOLARIN ''An equation of life, time and magic'' NICK MAKOHA Ezeani is no ordinary child. He sees things others don''t. Despite the burden of these visions, his precocious nature blossoms into genius and Ezeani grows up to be a gifted mathematician and physicist. When he leaves Nigeria and his adoring family behind to study at Cornell in the US, he remains haunted by his most persistent vision, Anyanwu, the Sun God. While Ezeani is adjusting to his new life in America, Anyanwu''s presence takes on an increasingly sinister and malevolent form - and chaos reigns. It''s enough to make anyone lose their grip on reality. The Comfort of Distant Stars is a bold coming-of-age tale blending physics, philosophy and Igbo cosmology, examining how we understand our place in the universe. It ponders the big questions we all ask ourselves about the nature of time and of being - ultimately revealing the startling vulnerability of the human mind.

Product details

• Authors: I O Echeruo, I. O. Echeruo
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.03.2026
• EAN: 9781837263332
• ISBN: 978-1-83726-333-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Nigeria, FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Narrative theme: Coming of age, Physics, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general