- Families, Fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Africa, fiction
"Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before"--Dust jacket flap.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Taiye Selasi, Taiye Selasi
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 318
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780670065707
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