Search Sweet Country

Search Sweet Country

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Accra, Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses of this sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of characters live, love and try to get by: an idealistic professor, a beautiful young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt politician, a healer and a man intent on founding his own village. Through their stories, and those of the living, breathing city itself, Kojo Laing’s dazzling novel creates a portrait of a place caught between colonialism and freedom, eternity and the present. ‘The finest novel written in English ever to come out of the African continent’ Binyavanga Wainaina

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Weight 0.269 kg
Dimensions 2.1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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368
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2019-8-1
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London, United Kingdom
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0241370094
About The Author

Kojo Laing was born on the Gold Coast, Ghana, in 1946, studied in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1960s, before returning to Accra, where he would spend the rest of his life as a novelist, poet and educator. A writer of soaring originality and pioneer of Afrofuturism, his Search Sweet Country (1986) won numerous awards, vast critical acclaim, and has been praised as 'the finest novel written in English ever to come out of the African continent' (Binyavanga Wainaina).

Surreal and satirical … Laing has found an original voice that is all the stronger for making few concessions to the Western reader: wild, sophisticated, sorrowful
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Gleefully energetic … there is an extravagant hopefulness in Kojo Laing
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