How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question which takes a mother on a journey of self-discovery. A bold and unflinching tale of one women's unconventional approach to life and loss.
Yewande Omotoso Pořadí knih
Yewande Omotoso píše prózu, která se ponořuje do složitosti identity a migrace. Její práce se zabývá tématy vykořenění a hledání domova s bystrým pozorováním a empatickým porozuměním. Autorka zkoumá, jak prostředí a kulturní pozadí formují naše vztahy a vnímání sebe sama. Její styl je pronikavý a zároveň citlivý, což čtenářům nabízí hluboký vhled do lidské zkušenosti.
- 2021
- 2019
Bom Boy
- 182 stránek
- 7 hodin čtení
From the Dublin Literary Award and Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted author of The Woman Next Door and An Unusual Grief Wandering in Cape Town, Leke stalks people, steals small objects, and visits doctors and healers in search of a cure. But he isn't sure what ails him--loneliness, or the family curse.
- 2016
The Woman Next Door
- 288 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighties. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility pruned with zeal. But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. Could long-held mutual loathing transform into friendship? Love thy neighbour? Easier said than done. 'Wit, charm and playful energy... An insightful and fascinating diptych of two women, with the history of colonialism and slavery lurking in the background' Herald