Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor The Dragonfly Sea recensie en waardering over de inhoud van deze roman uit Kenia. In 2019 verscheen bij Uitgeverij Knopf de nieuwe roman van de Keniaanse schrijfster Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verschenen.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor The Dragonfly Sea Roman uit Kenia
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The Dragonfly Sea
- Schrijfster: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenia)
- Soort boek: Keniaanse roman, sociale roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: A. Knopf / Vintage International
- Verschenen: 2019
- Omvang: 512 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Paperback / Ebook
Flaptekst van de roman van Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world–a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss.
On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life and the island itself–from a taciturn visitor with a murky past to a sanctuary-seeking religious extremist, from dragonflies to a tsunami, from black-clad kidnappers to cultural emissaries from China. Ayaana ends up embarking on a dramatic ship’s journey to the Far East, where she will discover friends and enemies; be seduced by the charming but unreliable scion of a powerful Turkish business family; reclaim her devotion to the sea; and come to find her own tenuous place amid a landscape of beauty and violence and surprising joy. Told with a glorious lyricism and an unerring sense of compassion, The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world.