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Search Sweet Country

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

Product details

Authors Kojo Laing, Laing Kojo
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 31.05.2019
 
EAN 9780241370094
ISBN 978-0-241-37009-4
No. of pages 368
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
Series Penguin Classics
Penguin Modern Classics
Penguin Modern Classics
Penguin Classics
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Ghana, FICTION / Literary, c 1970 to c 1979, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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