EAN: 9781783781317

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Kenya 2007. Odidi Oganda running for his life is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister Ajany and their father bring his body back home to a crumbling colonial house in northern Kenya. But the peace they seek is hard to find: the murder has stirred deeply buried memories of colonial violence of the killing-sprees of the Mau Mau uprising and the shocking political assassination of Tom Mboya in 1969. When a young Englishman appears searching for his missing father another story of love or at least a connection begins. This is a spellbinding state of the nation novel about Kenya showing how the violence of the past informs the violence and disorder of the present. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's memorable characters Ajany's mother deranged with grief and past violations the Trader embodying the timeless nomadic traders of Sudan and Odidi himself who transcended his past came to success and then a tragic end are enchanting. Owuor reveals to us a new Kenya a Kenya of bloodshed but also of modernity suffused with a spirit world only half-remembered. This is a country where the characters listen so acutely for what is not said and for the voices from the distant and recent past.

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