Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: from wikipedia
Opere di Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
La maison au bout des voyages 2 copie
Opere correlate
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Collaboratore — 90 copie
Ten years of the Caine Prize for African writing : plus J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Ben Okri (2009) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
A is for ancestors : a selection of works from the Caine Prize for African Writing 2003 (2004) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1968
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Kenya
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Kenya
- Luogo di nascita
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Istruzione
- Kenyatta University
Reading University (MA)
University of Queensland (MPhil) - Attività lavorative
- fiction writer
screenwriter
executive director, Zanzibar International Film Festival - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Caine Prize for African Writing (2003)
Utenti
Recensioni
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Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 329
- Popolarità
- #72,116
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 14
- ISBN
- 18
- Lingue
- 2
Not so, however, with Yvonna Adhiambo Owuor's novel The Dragonfly Sea - the poetical language here has not been grafted on the narrative retroactively but flows out of what the novel tells and how it tells it. And "flow" is indeed the operative word here, becuase the sea and its tidel motions are not only the main subject here but also the central structural element. The novel is about many things - the coming of age of its main protagonist Ayaana, life on the Kenyan island of Pate, about friendship and family, love and life - but all of them connect to the sea and are encompassed by it, and events and people come and go and return again like the tides of flood and ebb. And the novel`s language is as colourful and as Protean, as shifting and unsteady but also as flowing in a steady rhythm.
In short (and to avoid getting all flowery and effusive myself), I loved The Dragonfly Sea; it is a beautiful novel and I have nto been as moved by a book for quite some time.… (altro)