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Okwiri Oduor - Things They Lost, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Things They Lost

Longlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize

Av Okwiri Oduor

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'Magical, beguiling... Carries echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved' GuardianA Vulture 'Book We Can't Wait to Read in 2022'They had not lost anyone that year, or the ones they had lost were not worth remembering...Set in the fictional Kenyan town of Mapeli, Things They Lost tells the story of four generations of women, each haunted by the mysterious curse that hangs over the Brown family. At the heart of the novel is Ayosa Ataraxis Brown, twelve years old and the loneliest girl in the world. Okwiri Oduor's stunningly original debut novel sings with Kenyan folklore and myth as it traces Ayosa's fragile, toxic relationship with Nabumbo Promise, her mysterious and beguiling mother who comes and goes like tumbleweed: lost, but not quite gone.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-02-02
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 27 mm
  • Vikt: 325 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 368
  • Förlag: Oneworld Publications
  • ISBN: 9780861544912
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Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya. At the age of 25, she won the Caine Prize for African Writing 2014 for her story 'My Father’s Head'.  Later that year, she was named on the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 African writers under 40 who would define trends in African literature. She has been a MacDowell Colony fellow, and she received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has a story forthcoming in Granta, and Things They Lost is her debut novel. She lives in Germany.

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'Dazzling... In giddily exuberant prose, Oduor gradually reveals a terrifying story of generations of maternal abuse and dysfunction.'

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