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The Dragonfly Sea

The Dragonfly Sea

von Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Fiction Adventure Coming-of-Age
ISBN

9781101973622

Verlag

Vintage

Erschienen

25.02.2020

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Coming-of-age Adventure Literary Fiction Kenya East Africa Island Life Family Dynamics Father-Daughter Relationship Identity Self-discovery Cultural Exchange Historical Influence Nature Mortality Love Loss Resilience Sea Journey Cross-cultural Chinese Influence Turkish Influence Lyricism Compassion Shelter Beauty and Violence Poignant Real Simple Book of the Year Award-winning Author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Dust Author Young Woman Protagonist Global Perspective Emotional Depth Social Issues Multicultural Drama Friendship Enemies Historical Fiction Contemporary Fiction

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NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author of Dust 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. 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, The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world.

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