Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 (fiction).
Destined from birth to inhabit two very different worlds - that of her father, the wealthy Joseph Sakavungo, and that of her mother, his mistress - this emotive tale takes us to the heart of a young girl's attempts to come to terms with her own identity and fashion a future for herself from the patchwork of the life she was born into. Beautifully constructed, warm and wise, this is a novel that will transport the reader to a world in which we can all become more of the sum of our parts.
- ISBN10 0143527533
- ISBN13 9780143527534
- Publish Date 30 June 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English