Kintu
Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga
Kintu / Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi with an introduction by Aaron Bady. - Oakland, CA : Transit Books , c2014, 2017 - viii, 443 pages ; 21 cm. - Kwani? series ; 9 .
"First published in 2014 by Kwani Trust, Nairobi ."--Title verso page.
Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. Along the way, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan and a nation, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu's descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future.
English
Families----Fiction
Ethnohistory
Chiefdoms
Uganda----Fiction
Africa----Fiction
Historical fiction
Literary fiction
PR9402.9.M35 / K56 2017
FIC MAK
Kintu / Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi with an introduction by Aaron Bady. - Oakland, CA : Transit Books , c2014, 2017 - viii, 443 pages ; 21 cm. - Kwani? series ; 9 .
"First published in 2014 by Kwani Trust, Nairobi ."--Title verso page.
Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. Along the way, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan and a nation, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu's descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future.
English
Families----Fiction
Ethnohistory
Chiefdoms
Uganda----Fiction
Africa----Fiction
Historical fiction
Literary fiction
PR9402.9.M35 / K56 2017
FIC MAK
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