KINTU.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Oakland, CA: Transit Books, 2017. First edition - An award-winning debut - "The year is 1750. As he makes his way to the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom, Kintu Kidda unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. As the centuries pass, the tale moves down the bloodline, exploring the lives of four of Kintu Kidda's descendants. . . Blending Ganda oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has brought to life an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters to produce a powerful epic and a modern classic." First published in Kenya in 2014, winner of the Kwani Manuscript Prize, longlisted for the Etisalat Prize for African fiction. Introduction by Aaron Bady. viii, 443 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.