Kojo Laing Search Sweet Country recensie en informatie roman uit 1986 van de Ghanese schrijver. Bij uitgeverij Penguin Classics verschijnt de roman over Accra in de jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw van de uit Ghana afkomstige schrijver Kojo Laning. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is op dit moment geen Nederlandse vertaling van de Ghanese roman verkrijgbaar.
Kojo Laing Search Sweet Country recensie
- “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.” (The New York Times)
- “Laing pushed the English language to its limits and beyond, by fusing Oxbridge English with West African Pidgin, elements from African languages and his own coinings, aiming at creating one gigantic, living and truly cosmopolitan language … A treasure trove of imagery and refelctions which are just as amusing, relevant and thought-provoking as when they were written.” (The Voice)
Search Sweet Country
- Auteur: Kojo Laing (Ghana)
- Soort boek: Ghanese roman uit 1986
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
- Omvang: 368 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £10.99 / £7.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman uit Ghana van Kojo Laing
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.