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16%OFFNii Ayikwei Parkes - Tail of the Blue Bird - 9780099526124 - V9780099526124
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Tail of the Blue Bird

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Description for Tail of the Blue Bird Paperback. Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Kayo is a forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most inexplicable of mysteries. But as events in the village become incomprehensible, Kayo finds that Western logic and political bureaucracy are no longer equal to the task. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.

'A delightful book that combines the basic tug of the whodunit with the more elegant pleasures of the literary novel' Independent

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099526124
SKU
V9780099526124
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-74

About Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Born in the UK in 1974 and raised in Ghana, Nii Parkes lives in Manchester. He has performed poetry in the UK, Europe, Ghana and the US and was a 2005 Associate Artist-in-Residence with BBC Radio 3. In 2007 he was writer-in-residence at California State University, and became one of the youngest living writers to be featured in the Poems ... Read more

Reviews for Tail of the Blue Bird
A delightful book that combines the basic tug of the whodunit with the more elegant pleasures of the literary novel
Independent
A lyrically beautiful tale
Arise
A deeply complex novel; each character, every line entices the reader into feeling the beating heart of urban and rural Ghanaian lives... Parkes' steady, assured writing weaves a cosmological mystery ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Tail of the Blue Bird


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