Search Sweet Country
Author: Laing, Kojo
ISBN: 9780241370094
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A startling, densely poetic portrait of 1970s Ghana as it emerges from colonial rule
Winner of the Valco Fund Literary Award for Fiction and the Ghana Book Award
Search Sweet Country follows the lives of an eclectic, interconnected group of Ghanaians living in and around the sprawling, chaotic city of Accra in the mid-1970s. Bringing the city to life in dizzying, lyrical prose, Laing weaves a story filled with bizarre and often melancholy characters- an idealistic professor, a lovely young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt politician and his hack sidekick, a business-savvy young woman, a healer, a bishop and a crazy man intent on founding his own village. Their collective narratives create a portrait of a country where colonialism is dying, but democracy remains elusive. Search Sweet Country is a timeless, near-forgotten gem by a virtuosic writer, as necessary now as when the book was first published. Like Joyce's Dublin and Dickens's London, Laing's Accra brims with both lush specificity and universal relevance.
ISBN: 9780241370094
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A startling, densely poetic portrait of 1970s Ghana as it emerges from colonial rule
Winner of the Valco Fund Literary Award for Fiction and the Ghana Book Award
Search Sweet Country follows the lives of an eclectic, interconnected group of Ghanaians living in and around the sprawling, chaotic city of Accra in the mid-1970s. Bringing the city to life in dizzying, lyrical prose, Laing weaves a story filled with bizarre and often melancholy characters- an idealistic professor, a lovely young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt politician and his hack sidekick, a business-savvy young woman, a healer, a bishop and a crazy man intent on founding his own village. Their collective narratives create a portrait of a country where colonialism is dying, but democracy remains elusive. Search Sweet Country is a timeless, near-forgotten gem by a virtuosic writer, as necessary now as when the book was first published. Like Joyce's Dublin and Dickens's London, Laing's Accra brims with both lush specificity and universal relevance.
