Okwiri Oduor

Gebundenes Buch

Things They Lost

Longlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize

Beschreibung

From the 2014 Caine Prize winner comes an astonishing new novel, riven through with mystery and magic, about a daughterâ s quest to save her mother

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oneworld Publications
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 153mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780861543878
• ISBN-10: 0861543874
• Artikelnr.: 63046413

Rezensionen

"Astonishing ... Oduor has produced page after page of gorgeous, elegiac prose. Dense and rich as a black Christmas cake and alternately whimsical, sweet and dark, Things They Lost is a complex work, brimming with uncompromisingly African magical realism."
-New York Times Book Review

"In giddily exuberant prose, Oduor gradually reveals a terrifying story of generations of maternal abuse and dysfunction."
-Financial Times

"[A] story that injects the fantastic into the mystery of Kenya's disappearing girls ... [Things They Lost] will appeal to any reader who has survived or wants to understand girlhood as a time of complexity, laced with unparalleled creativity and expansion."
-Vogue