Peter Kimani

Dance of the Jakaranda

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa by telling the story of the birth of Kenya's railroad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 133mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781617754968
• ISBN-10: 161775496X
• Artikelnr.: 44801525

Autorenporträt

Peter Kimani is a leading African writer of his generation. Born in 1971 in Kenya, he started his career as a journalist and has published several works of fiction and poetry. He was one of only three international poets commissioned by National Public Radio to compose and present a poem to mark Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009. Kimani earned his doctorate in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program in 2014, and is a faculty member at Aga Khan University's Graduate School of Media and Communications in Nairobi. Dance of the Jakaranda is his third novel.