TOADS FOR SUPPER. By Chukwuemeka Ike
This book was published well over 50 years ago. A re-reading even now shows how very well written the book is, excellent in so many ways. Whether as an excellent, absorbing, straightforward novel, a relevant realistic work, a brilliant insight into the lives and wiles of undergraduates...the book excels in every conceivable manner. It is also filled with elements of mystery, thrills and spills, twists and turns... the whole work, throughout. For example the major revelation here is perhaps the unfortunate mystery in Aduke's (one of the 3 young women Amadi is somewhat involved with) life, and the haunting twist at the very end of the work. But the sophistication goes much further than this. For example it is with a sense of great shock that we are suddenly introduced to Sweetie, the Lagos "good time" girl - she and her cantankerous mother. What are they doing inside Amadi's room? Why is Amadi reluctant for Aduke to enter the room? And later on, it is a maste...