Dance of the Jakaranda

By - Kimani, Peter

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Akashic Books, Brooklyn, New York, 2017

ISBN 10 - 161775496X

ISBN 13 - 9781617754968

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Kenya

Shelf No - 9

Call Number - 823.914 KIM

Physical Description - 342 pages ; 21 cm

Book Information

Set in the shadow of Kenya's independence from Britain, Dance of the Jakaranda re-imagines the rise and fall of colonialism, and the circumstances that brought races together to lay the railroad that heralded the nation's birth. The novel traces the lives of three men: preacher Richard Turnbull, colonial administrator Ian McDonald and Indian technician Babu Salim, whose lives intersect when they are implicated in the controversial birth of a child. The novel is anchored in the African storytelling tradition, its language a dreamy, exalted and earthy mix that creates new thresholds of identity.

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