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The Dragonfly Sea, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
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- Titel
- The Dragonfly Sea
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1101973625
- ISBN13
- 9781101973622
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Liebe, Familie, Beziehungen, Afrika, China, Erwachsenwerden, Magischer Realismus, Meere und Ozeane, Mamas, Vertrauen, Identität, Machtkampf, Alleinsein, Heim, Töchter, Afrikanische Literatur, Kenia
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 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.