Dust
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9780345802545
- Genre
- FictionCrime & Thriller
- Topics
- Kenyan history and politicsFamily secretsColonialism and its legacy
Awards
- The Writers' PrizeShortlistedMajor(2015)
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