One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
By Binyavanga Wainaina
Read by Ivanno Jeremiah
Unabridged
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$42.99
ISBN: 9781664410978
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$29.95
ISBN: 9781664667549
| Runtime: | 10.28 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
One of the 2011 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Nonfiction
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011
A New York Times Editor’s Choice of 2011
An Oprah’s Summer Reading List Selection
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Brimming with insouciant virtuosity…Wainaina’s Africa is not all glamorous poverty and backlit giraffes. It’s an Africa in which the lost are perpetually leading the blind, and yet somehow still find their way home.”
—New York Times Book Review
“[An] astonishing, dreamy memoir…Words quickly become [Wainaina’s] life, especially as he grows up to become one of Africa’s intellectual leaders, but never does he lose that magical, deeply felt sense of language. And as his readers, neither do we.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“A raw, honest piece of memoir…Excruciatingly funny…The book is a meditation on postcolonialism, independence, and national identity, told as they play out in his family and his brain.”
—Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“Wainaina is a natural raconteur, and the book is imbued with a spoken word quality…Filled with entertaining detours.”
—Boston Globe
“This sublime word-drunk memoir from the Caine Prize–winning author describes a coming-of-age rent by political troubles and suffused by a love affair with language.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Ivanno Jeremiah is the perfect choice for this heartfelt memoir of a boy growing up in Kenya during political and familial turmoil. Jeremiah is a consummate performer whose versatility brings both male and female characters to life.” —AudioFile
“Language is clearly the author’s preferred mode of structuring the world, but it is also the plaything he uses with idiosyncratic grace and brilliant immediacy to capture ‘the scattered, shifting sensations’ of memories and emotions long past.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author
Author Bio: Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina is the founding editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine. He won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing and has written for Vanity Fair, Granta, and the New York Times. He directs the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Runtime: | 10.28 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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