Search Sweet Country (Heinemann African Writers) - Softcover

Laing, Kojo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435045709 ISBN 13: 9780435045708

Publisher: Heinemann, 2011

Synopsis

Set in 1970s Accra, this inventive and intense first novel by Kojo Laing provides an insight into aspects of a Ghanaian society caught in transition between tradition and modernity. Examining the beliefs, ideals and aspirations of a selection of those who make up the country (which include a politican, a professor, a farmer and a bishop) like a skilful bartender Kojo Laing has created a heady cocktail in Search Sweet Country that will not fail to stimulate the reader's mind.

About this title

About the Author

Kojo Laing is renowned Ghanaian poet and novelist. His first two novels - Search Sweet Country and Woman of the Aeroplanes - were first published by William Heinemann in the 1980s. Acclaimed at the time by critics such as Robert Fraser and Adewale Maja-Pearce, the Heinemann African Writers Series' republication of these seminal works comes at a time of renewed interest in Laing, who has been a major influence on a younger generation of writers. Other Laing titles previously published by the Series are the poetry collection Godhorseand the novel Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars.

Edition details

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0435045709
• ISBN 13: 9780435045708
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368