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One Day I Will Write About This Place A Memoir

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Publisher's Synopsis

Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhod out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson - all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister, Jimmy and Ciru. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his failed attempt to study in South Africa, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya.

Book information

ISBN: 9781555975913
Publisher: Graywolf
Imprint: Graywolf Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 544g
Height: 235mm
Width: 162mm
Spine width: 25mm