




Kumukanda
Market worth: ₹ 599
Book Condition: Pre Loved
Description
Kumukanda
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize 2017
Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian and Daily Telegraph
‘Urban and urbane, it’s a magnificent debut’ Daily Telegraph
‘A brilliant debut – a tender, nostalgic and at times darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief – from one of my favourite writers’ – Warsan Shire
Translating as ‘initiation’, kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi’s remarkable debut explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary between the living and the dead between the gulf of who he is and how he is perceived.
Underpinned by a love of music, language and literature, here is a powerful exploration of race, identity and masculinity, celebrating what it means to be British and not British, all at once.
Details
Title | Kumukanda |
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Author | Kayombo Chingonyi |
ISBN-13 | 9781784741396 |
ISBN-10 | 1784741396 |
Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
Language | English |
Edition | Kumukanda |
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Height | 215 mm |
Width | 136 mm |
Thickness | 5 mm |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 64 |