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Caine Prize winner Binyavanga Wainaina took the literary world by storm with his groundbreaking memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place, a New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year. From his middle-class Kenyan childhood to the writing prize that finally enabled him to write full-time, Wainaina offers a stunning portrayal of his family, tribe, and country-and of the shifting political scene that so influenced all of his experiences.

About the Author :
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. Ivanno Jeremiah has appeared on such television shows as The Jury II and Injustice. His audiobook narrations include Binyavanga Wainaina's One Day I Will Write about This Place, among others.

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)"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"Wainaina is a natural raconteur, and the book is imbued with a spoken word quality...Filled with entertaining detours."

-- "Boston Globe"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781664410978
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publisher Imprint: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 166441097X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2012
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Memoir


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