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One Day I Will Write About This Place
Binyavanga Wainaina
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Description for One Day I Will Write About This Place
Paperback. A groundbreaking memoir by the acclaimed Kenyan Caine Prize winner. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson - all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his failed attempt to study in ... Read more
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson - all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his failed attempt to study in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847083326
SKU
V9781847083326
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About Binyavanga Wainaina
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA was born in Nakuru, Kenya in 1971.He is the founding editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine based in Kenya. He won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, and has written for Vanity Fair, Virginia Quarterly, Granta, and the New York Times. Wainaina directs the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College ... Read more
Reviews for One Day I Will Write About This Place
A beguiling account of coming of age in post-colonial Africa ... This is Africa from the African point of view, a vibrant celebration of "normal human beings doing normal things"
Sunday Times
Brilliant... Wainaina's beautifully elastic sentences fizz and crackle, pounce on their meanings, stretch and snap back into place ... An outstanding book, bursting with life and ... Read more
Sunday Times
Brilliant... Wainaina's beautifully elastic sentences fizz and crackle, pounce on their meanings, stretch and snap back into place ... An outstanding book, bursting with life and ... Read more