Search Sweet Country

Author: Kojo Laing

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  • : $26.00 NZD
  • : 9780241370094
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : August 2019
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  • : Kojo Laing
  • : Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : 1911
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  • : English
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  • : 368
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Barcode 9780241370094
9780241370094

Description

Winner of the Valco Fund Literary Award for Fiction and the Ghana Book Award.

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 collective narratives create a portrait of a country where colonialism is dying, but democracy remains elusive. Search Sweet Country is a timeless, near-forgotten gem by a virtuosic writer, as necessary now as when the book was first published. Like Joyce's Dublin and Dickens's London, Laing's Accra brims with both lush specificity and universal relevance.