One Day I Will Write About This Place..., Binyavanga Wainaina
One Day I Will Write About This Place..., Binyavanga Wainaina
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One Day I Will Write About This Place
A Memoir

Author: Binyavanga Wainaina

Narrator: Ivanno Jeremiah

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/07/2012


Synopsis

Caine Prize winner Binyavanga Wainaina took the literary world by storm with his groundbreaking memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place, a New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year. From his middle-class Kenyan childhood to the writing prize that finally enabled him to write full-time, Wainaina offers a stunning portrayal of his family, tribe, and country-and of the shifting political scene that so influenced all of his experiences.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Zanna on August 12, 2015

This is the memoir of a book addict, and Wainaina's savour for language glows from the first. His descriptions dance, they sing, they jump, syncopated, a lively, twisting flow like swift water, throwing rainbows of unexpected images into the air. In a pressing, urgent present tense at all times, his......more

Goodreads review by George Ciuri on April 04, 2024

An awakening book. I enjoyed though I read months ago......more

Goodreads review by B. P. on May 30, 2019

"It often feels like an unbearable privilege to write. I make a living from simply taking all those wonderful and horrible patterns in my past and making them new and strong. I know people better. Sometimes I want to stop writing...But I can't stop." [Update: May 30, 2019]: Yesterday I found out that......more

Goodreads review by Zuzana on July 31, 2017

Veľká literárna paráda s pohľadom do Kene, Južnej Afriky a iných súvislostí v biografii autora. Ako hovoril Mills - biografia sa pretína s históriou a vznikne sociológia. Keď sa sociológia píše so živosťou reálnych obrazov, je to tá najlepšia literatúra.......more

Goodreads review by Michal on January 17, 2021

Po prvých 100 stranách som mal chuť skončiť to trápenie, a venovať radšej svoj čas knihe, ktorá by ma svojou formou písania dokázala lepšie vtiahnuť do deja. Premohol som sa však, a som za to sám sebe vďačný. Síce mám stále isté problémy s príliš zasnenou rečou autora a pre mňa až zbytočnými pasážam......more