Dust
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#4071 of 8,085 books · #1216 in Crime & Thriller
Shortlisted for the Writers' Prize (2015).
A novel that opens with a young man's murder on the day of the tumultuous 2007 election in Kenya, but then goes into the history of his family and of the splintered African nation around them--in scenes stretching back to a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780345802545
- Topics
Awards
- The Writers' PrizeShortlisted(2015)
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