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A storm blew in from paradise / Johannes Anyuru ; translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
Van Pelt Library PT9877.1.N98 S713 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anyuru, Johannes, 1979- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Storm kom från paradiset. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fighter pilots--Uganda--Fiction.
- Fighter pilots.
- Defectors.
- History.
- Uganda--History--1971-1979--Fiction.
- Uganda.
- Defectors--Uganda--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : World Editions, 2019.
- Summary:
- "P's greatest dream is to fly. He sets out to become a Ugandan fighter pilot, training in an academy in Greece. When the 1971 Idi Amin coup in his homeland disrupts his plans, he defects and becomes a man on the run. In this extraordinary novel based on his own father's fate, Anyuru evokes P's struggles in gorgeous, vivid prose. As a refugee, military-camp prisoner, and exile, P never gives up hope and continues to dream of life as a pilot. In a story told across two generations, P searches for identity and purpose in a world in which nowhere is home." -- Amazon.com.
- ISBN:
- 9781642860443
- 1642860441
- OCLC:
- 1091586095
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