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Patchwork

Patchwork

Author(s): Ellen Banda-Aaku

Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): early 21st century

Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 (fiction). Destined from birth to inhabit two very different worlds – that of her father, the wealthy Joseph Sakavungo, and that of her mother, his mistress – this emotive tale takes us to the heart of a young girl’s attempts to come to terms with her own identity and fashion a future for herself from the patchwork of the life she was born into. Beautifully constructed, warm and wise, this is a novel that will transport the reader to a world in which we can all become more of the sum of our parts.

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