Manu Herbstein

Brave Music of a Distant Drum (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Stinson, Kathy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ama is an enslaved African. In Brazil, near the end of her life, she is determined that her story shall survive for future generations. Her story is one of violence and heartache, but also of courage, hope, determination, and ultimately, love. Since Ama is blind, she has to dictate to her long separated only son, Kwame Zumbi. As his mother's history is revealed to him, Kwame's world changes forever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manu Herbstein
• Seitenzahl: 181
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781508044994
• Artikelnr.: 55938815

Autorenporträt

Manu Herbstein (b. 1936 near Cape Town, South Africa) holds dual South African and Ghanaian citizenship. In the 1960s he worked as a civil and structural engineer in England, Nigeria, Ghana, India, Ghana again, Zambia and Scotland. He returned to Ghana in 1970 and has lived there since. He began writing seriously as he approached retirement. His first novel, Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Book.