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Title: Dragonfly Sea
Author: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
ISBN: 9780451494047
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2019
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 512
Publisher Description: <b>NAMED A <i>REAL SIMPLE </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR <p/>From the award-winning author of <i>Dust</i> comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss.</b> <p/>On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life and the island itself--from a taciturn visitor with a murky past to a sanctuary-seeking religious extremist, from dragonflies to a tsunami, from black-clad kidnappers to cultural emissaries from China. Ayaana ends up embarking on a dramatic ship's journey to the Far East, where she will discover friends and enemies; be seduced by the charming but unreliable scion of a powerful Turkish business family; reclaim her devotion to the sea; and come to find her own tenuous place amid a landscape of beauty and violence and surprising joy. Told with a glorious lyricism and an unerring sense of compassion, <i>The Dragonfly Sea</i> is a transcendent story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world.
Author: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
ISBN: 9780451494047
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2019
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 512
Publisher Description: <b>NAMED A <i>REAL SIMPLE </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR <p/>From the award-winning author of <i>Dust</i> comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss.</b> <p/>On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life and the island itself--from a taciturn visitor with a murky past to a sanctuary-seeking religious extremist, from dragonflies to a tsunami, from black-clad kidnappers to cultural emissaries from China. Ayaana ends up embarking on a dramatic ship's journey to the Far East, where she will discover friends and enemies; be seduced by the charming but unreliable scion of a powerful Turkish business family; reclaim her devotion to the sea; and come to find her own tenuous place amid a landscape of beauty and violence and surprising joy. Told with a glorious lyricism and an unerring sense of compassion, <i>The Dragonfly Sea</i> is a transcendent story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world.
