Search Sweet Country (Penguin Modern Classics)

Accra,Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses ofthis sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of characters live, love andtry to get by: an idealistic professor, a beautiful young witch, awide-eyed student, a corrupt politician, a healer and a man intent onfounding his own village. Through their stories, and those of theliving, breathing city itself, Kojo Laing's dazzling novel creates aportrait of a place caught between colonialism and freedom, eternity andthe present.

'The finest novel written in English ever to come out of the African continent' Binyavanga Wainaina

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African literature's greatest linguistic innovator