In Dependence

Name: In Dependence
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarah Ladipo Manyika
ISBN: 9781980064251

Author: Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Narrator: Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/29/2019

Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Sagas, Romance, Women, Historical Fiction, Cultural Fiction

Synopsis

In the early sixties, Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship
at Oxford University. There he discovers a whole generation high on visions of a new
and better world. He meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of a former
colonial officer. Their story, which spans four decades, is a bittersweet tale of a brave
but doomed affair and the universal desire to fall truly, madly and deeply in love.
This is a lyrical and moving story of unfulfilled love fraught with the weight of
history, race and geography and intertwined with questions of belonging, ageing, faith
and family secrets. In Dependence explores the complexities of contemporary Africa, its
diaspora and its interdependence with the rest of the world.

About Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a British-Nigerian-American writer of novels, short stories, and essays translated into several languages. She is author of the bestselling novel In Dependence and multiple shortlisted novel Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun, and has had work published in publications, including Granta, The Guardian, the Washington Post, and Transfuge, among others. Sarah serves as board chair for the women's writing residency, Hedgebrook; she was previously board director for the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; and has been a judge for the Goldsmiths Prize, California Book Awards, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and chair of judges for the Pan-African Etisalat Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba

Holey moley, Sarah Ladipo Manyika* has done it to me again... blown me out of the water with her writing! Sometimes I finish a book, and feel like immediately applauding, this is one of those books. Starting in Nigeria but spreading its wings to England, and little bits of Senegal, France and the Uni......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

I love the opening line of this book: "One could begin with the dust, the heat and the purple bougainvillea. One might even begin with the smell of rotting mangos tossed by the side of the road where the flies hummed and green-bellied lizards bobbed their orange heads while loitering in the sun. But......more

Goodreads review by Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship

I had to get this book through Interlibrary Loan, because none of the excellent libraries to which I have access had a copy. Now I know why. In Dependence is the rather diffuse tale of Tayo, a Nigerian who studies in England as a young man, and Vanessa, a woman with whom he becomes involved. The aut......more

Goodreads review by Kiki

I love this book. I just love this book. In the wake of The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell and reading it concurrently with Lost Children Archive, it's a testament to Manyika's talent that "In Dependence" never suffered in comparison. The novel is a master class on how the political is personal. Tayo a......more

Goodreads review by Charlott

3,5 Sarah Ladipo Manyika's debut novel In Dependence gladly got a beautiful new edition by Cassava Republic Press this year celebrating its 10th birthday. But in the photo, I hold the copy which I bought years ago in Ibadan. As many of you know, I loved Manyika's second book, the wonderful, sharp, an......more