Things They Lost - Oduor, Okwiri
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From the 2014 Caine Prize winner comes an astonishing new novel, riven through with mystery and magic, about a daughter¿s quest to save her mother

Produktbeschreibung
From the 2014 Caine Prize winner comes an astonishing new novel, riven through with mystery and magic, about a daughter¿s quest to save her mother
Autorenporträt
Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Her short story "My Father's Head" won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, The New Inquiry, Kwani, and elsewhere. She has been a fellow at MacDowell and Art Omi and a visiting writer at the Lannan Center. Oduor has an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently lives in Germany.
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"Astonishing ... Oduor has produced page after page of gorgeous, elegiac prose. Dense and rich as a black Christmas cake and alternately whimsical, sweet and dark, Things They Lost is a complex work, brimming with uncompromisingly African magical realism."
-New York Times Book Review

"In giddily exuberant prose, Oduor gradually reveals a terrifying story of generations of maternal abuse and dysfunction."
-Financial Times

"[A] story that injects the fantastic into the mystery of Kenya's disappearing girls ... [Things They Lost] will appeal to any reader who has survived or wants to understand girlhood as a time of complexity, laced with unparalleled creativity and expansion."
-Vogue