THE WOLF AT NUMBER 4
Laura T. Murphy and Ainehi Edoro, Series Editors
This series brings the best African writing to an international audience. These groundbreaking novels, memoirs, and other literary works showcase the most talented writers of the African continent. The series also features works of significant historical and literary value translated into English for the first time. Moderately priced, the books chosen for the series are well crafted, original, and ideally suited for African studies classes, world literature classes, or any reader looking for compelling voices of diverse African perspectives.
Welcome to Our Hillbrow A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa
Phaswane Mpe
ISBN: 978-0-8214-1962-5
Dog Eat Dog
Niq Mhlongo
ISBN: 978-0-8214-1994-6
After Tears
Niq Mhlongo
ISBN: 978-0-8214-1984-7
From Sleep Unbound
Andrée Chedid
ISBN: 978-0-8040-0837-2
On Black Sisters Street
Chika Unigwe
ISBN: 978-0-8214-1992-2
Paper Sons and Daughters Growing Up Chinese in South Africa
Ufrieda Ho
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2020-1
The Conscript A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War
Gebreyesus Hailu
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2023-2
Thirteen Cents
K. Sello Duiker
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2036-2
Sacred River
Syl Cheney-Coker
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2056-0 (hardcover)
978-0-8214-2137-6 (paperback)
491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2102-4 (hardcover)
978-0-8214-2101-7 (paperback)
The Hairdresser of Harare
Tendai Huchu
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2162-8 (hardcover)
978-0-8214-2163-5 (paperback)
Mrs. Shaw
Mukoma Wa Ngugi
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2143-7
The Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician
Tendai Huchu
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2205-2 (hardcover)
978-0-8214-2206-9 (paperback)
Tales of the Metric System
Imraan Coovadia
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2225-0 (hardcover)
978-0-8214-2226-7 (paperback)
The Extinction of Menai
Chuma Nwokolo
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2298-4
The Wolf at Number 4
Ayo Tamakloe-Garr
ISBN: 978-0-8214-2354-7 (hardcover)
978-0-8214-2355-4 (paperback)
The Wolf at Number 4
A NOVEL
Ayo Tamakloe-Garr
Ohio University Press • Athens
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
© 2018 by Ayo Tamakloe-Garr
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tamakloe-Garr, Ayo, 1992- author.
Title: The wolf at number 4 : a novel / Ayo Tamakloe-Garr.
Other titles: Wolf at number four
Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2018. | Series: Modern african writing series
Identifiers: LCCN 2018038480| ISBN 9780821423547 (hardback) | ISBN 9780821423554 (pb) | ISBN 9780821446584 (pdf)
Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / General. | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African.
Classification: LCC PR9379.9.T36 W65 2018 | DDC 823/.92--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018038480
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