{"product_id":"9781783781317","title":"Dust","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 4 June 2015 by GRANTA BOOKS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 384 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 131 x 25 | 274g\u003cp\u003eKenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father bring his body back home, to a crumbling colonial house  in northern Kenya. But the peace they seek is hard to find: the murder has stirred deeply buried memories of colonial violence, of the killing-sprees of the Mau Mau uprising, and the shocking political assassination of Tom Mboya in 1969.  When a young Englishman appears, searching for his missing father, another story, of love, or at least a connection, begins. This is a spellbinding state of the nation novel about Kenya, showing how the violence of the past informs the violence and disorder of the present. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's memorable characters; Ajany's mother, deranged with grief and past violations, the Trader, embodying the timeless nomadic traders of Sudan, and Odidi himself, who transcended his past, came to success, and then a tragic end, are enchanting. Owuor reveals to us a new Kenya, a Kenya of bloodshed but also of modernity, suffused with a spirit world only half-remembered. This is a country where the characters listen so acutely for what is not said, and for the voices from the distant and recent past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42538012967096,"sku":"9781783781317","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781783781317.jpg?v=1734713118","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781783781317","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}