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369 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel that opens with a young man's murder on the day of the tumultuous 2007 election in Kenya, but then goes into the history of his family and of the splintered African nation around them in scenes stretching back to a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s"--
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Physical Desc
489 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A vibrant, stunningly global novel about a young woman struggling to find her place -- a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss. On the small island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives a girl named Ayaana. She is solitary and stubborn -- she and her mother, Munira, are outcasts from the insular local society -- and her kitten is her main companion. When a wizened sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana...
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