'Ugandan literature can boast of an international superstar in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi' Economist An award-winning debut that vividly reimagines Uganda’s troubled history through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clanIn this epic tale of fate, fortune and legacy, Jennifer Makumbi vibrantly brings to life this corner of Africa and this colourful family as she reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan.The year is 1750. Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda kingdom. Along the way he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. Blending oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break free from the burden of their past to produce a majestic tale of clan and country – a modern classic.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiEAN: 9781786074430COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Oneworld PublicationsDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Cultural HeritageWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
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Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Historical fiction
'It seethes with energy and teems with memorable characters.', ‘Kintu is an important book. It is also a very good one...inventive in scope, masterful in execution, [Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi] does for Ugandan literature what Chinua Achebe did for Nigerian writing.’, ‘Ugandan literature can boast of an international superstar in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, whose debut novel Kintu is a multi-generational saga that ties oral myth to a recognisable present.’, ‘A highly ambitious, dense and tightly written narrative… Makumbi succeeds in making us feel the emotional importance of uncovering family history. Often faced with agonisingly difficult legacies and situations, her characters don’t just want but need explanations.’, ‘Immediately engaging…as gruelling vignettes of gender injustice jostle with hallucinatory dream sequences.’
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer, has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel, Kintu (Oneworld, 2018), won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her second novel, The First Woman, was awarded the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour in 2021. She was awarded the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 'Let's Tell This Story Properly', which features in this collection. She was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 to support her writing, and lives in Manchester where she lectures in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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'Ugandan literature can boast of an international superstar in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi' Economist An award-winning debut that vividly reimagines Uganda’s troubled history through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clanIn this epic tale of fate, fortune and legacy, Jennifer Makumbi vibrantly brings to life this corner of Africa and this colourful family as she reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan.The year is 1750. Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda kingdom. Along the way he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. Blending oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break free from the burden of their past to produce a majestic tale of clan and country – a modern classic.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiEAN: 9781786074430COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Oneworld PublicationsDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Cultural HeritageWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Historical fiction
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer, has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel, Kintu (Oneworld, 2018), won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her second novel, The First Woman, was awarded the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour in 2021. She was awarded the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 'Let's Tell This Story Properly', which features in this collection. She was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018 to support her writing, and lives in Manchester where she lectures in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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