Ake: The Years of Childhood - Hardcover

Soyinda, Wole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394528077 ISBN 13: 9780394528076

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1982

Synopsis

Ake: The Years of Childhood

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Review:

"A lovely, magical book." --"The Washington Post
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"A brilliant imagist who uses poetry and drama to convey his inquisitiveness, frustration, and sense of wonder." --"Newsweek
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Brilliant. . . . Transcendant. . . . It locates the lost child in all of us, underneath language, inside sound and smell, wide-eyed, brave and flummoxed. . . . Soyinka belongs in the company of . . .V. S. Naipaul, V. S. Pritchett, and Vladimir Nabokov." --"The New York Times
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"A delightful memoir." --"The Atlantic
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"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably her finest. . . . "Ake" is aclassic of African autobiography, indeed a classic of childhood memoirs wherever and whenever produced." --"The New York Times Book Review""

About the Author:

Wole Soyinka is an internationally acclaimed playwright, poet, novelist, and critic, who served as professor of comparative literature at the University of Ife, Nigeria, until forced to flee the country during the regime of General Abacha in the 1990s.His books published in the U.S. include his "Collected Plays" and the memoir "The Man Died: Prison Notes."Soyinka became the first African to beawarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. He is now Professor in Residence at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California."

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0394528077
• ISBN 13: 9780394528076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230