Ellen Banda-Aaku
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.
Cultural,Africa,Eastern Africa,Zambia,Fiction,Contemporary,Literature,African Literature,Young Adult,Coming Of Age,Literature,21st Century,Womens,Novels
Patchwork