Search Sweet Country: Kojo Laing (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Laing, Kojo

 
9780241370094: Search Sweet Country: Kojo Laing (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241370094 ISBN 13: 9780241370094
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Accra, Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses of this sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of characters live, love and try to get by: an idealistic professor, a beautiful young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt politician, a healer and a man intent on founding his own village. Through their stories, and those of the living, breathing city itself, Kojo Laing's dazzling novel creates a portrait of a place caught between colonialism and freedom, eternity and the present.

'The finest novel written in English ever to come out of the African continent' Binyavanga Wainaina

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kojo Laing was born on the Gold Coast, Ghana, in 1946, studied in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1960s, before returning to Accra, where he would spend the rest of his life as a novelist, poet and educator. A writer of soaring originality and pioneer of Afrofuturism, his Search Sweet Country (1986) won numerous awards, vast critical acclaim, and has been praised as 'the finest novel written in English ever to come out of the African continent' (Binyavanga Wainaina).

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Search Sweet Country follows the lives of an eclectic, interconnected group of Ghanaians living in and around the sprawling, chaotic city of Accra in the mid-1970s. Bringing the city to life in dizzying, lyrical prose, Laing weaves a story filled with bizarre and often melancholy characters: an idealistic professor, a lovely young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt politician and his hack sidekick, a business-savvy young woman, a healer, a bishop and a crazy man intent on founding his own village. Their

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241370094
ISBN 13 
9780241370094
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
368
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

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Madrid
Madrid
Spanien

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