Dust /
"A novel that opens with a young man's murder on the day of the tumultuous 2007 election in Kenya, but then goes into the history of his family and of the splintered African nation around them--in scenes stretching back to a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprising...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "A novel that opens with a young man's murder on the day of the tumultuous 2007 election in Kenya, but then goes into the history of his family and of the splintered African nation around them--in scenes stretching back to a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 369 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780307961204 (hardback) 0307961206 (hardback) |