One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
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Imprint: Graywolf Press
(Sep 04, 2012)
Fiction, Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555976248
Fiction, Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555976248
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Description of One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
“A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man… suffused by a love affair with language.”—Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2011
In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbles through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. In One Day I Will Write About This Place, named a 2011 New York Times notable book, Wainaina brilliantly evokes family, tribe, and nationhood in joyous, ecstatic language.
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