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Onuzo, Chibundu

 
9780349013138: Sankofa: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0349013136 ISBN 13: 9780349013138
Verlag: Virago, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Chibundu Onuzo was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her life so far spans two military dictatorships, one internet revolution, two boarding schools, five grandmothers and a first book deal signed at nineteen. Chibundu's first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, was published by Faber in 2012 and was the winner of a Betty Trask Award, shorted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and Etisalat Literature Prize. Her second novel, Welcome to Lagos, was published by Faber in 2017 and shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. In 2018 Chibundu was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, as part of its "40 Under 40" initiative. She contributes regularly to the Guardian, has done a talk for Tedx and her autobiographical show 1991, featuring narrative, music, song and dance, premiered in a sell-out show at Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival in 2018. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @chibunduonuzo.

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A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick * A Between the Covers Book Club Pick


'A beautiful book about a woman brave enough to discover her true identity' REESE WITHERSPOON

Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up and her mother - the only parent who raised her - is dead.

Searching through her mother's belongings, she finds clues about the West African father she never knew. Through reading his student diary, chronicling his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London, she discovers that he eventually became the president, some would say the dictator, of a small nation in West Africa - and that he is still alive. She decides to track him down and so begins a funny, painful, fascinating journey.

'A real pleasure, it's funny, thought-provoking and holds a light up to everything from cultural differences to colonialism' STYLIST

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'Slick pacing and unpredictable developments keep the reader alert right up to the novel's exhilarating ending' GUARDIAN (BOOK OF THE DAY)

'Fantastic' SEFI ATTA

'Onuzo's sneakily breezy, highly entertaining novel leaves the reader rethinking familiar narratives of colonisation, inheritance and liberation' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349013136
ISBN 13 
9780349013138
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Anzahl der Seiten
304
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