The Dragonfly Sea isn’t really about China. Dragonfly Sea, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Knopf, March ) For fiction, fortunately, might-maybe-possibly-be-true suffices and the story of the “China girl”, as she was called, seeded Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s new novel The Dragonfly Sea and inspired the creation of its protagonist Ayaana, who comes to be known as “the Descendant”.Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Told with a glorious lyricism and an unerring sense of compassion, The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor: The Dragonfly Sea Pate Island – An Antidote to Desecrated Worlds These words are used by the young Kenian author when speaking about what she feels is her home – a small island surrounded by mangrove forests just in front of the Kenian coast, in /5(47).
THE DRAGONFLY SEA. by it as a stunning mélange of Islamic and African cultural traditions that are woven together via the motif of the sea. Pate becomes the epicenter of an ethos and a people who move freely, sailing without regard for cultural and national borders. More by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. BOOK REVIEW. DUST. The Dragonfly Sea | Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo | download | Z-Library. Download books for free. Find books. The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about The Dragonfly Sea: "In this sprawling, beautiful novel from Owuor (Dust), a real-life occurrence of a Kenyan woman travelling to China after learning of her Chinese heritage forms the backdrop for a moving story of loss and discovery.
Told with a glorious lyricism and an unerring sense of compassion, The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world. The Dragonfly Sea isn’t really about China. Dragonfly Sea, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Knopf, March ) For fiction, fortunately, might-maybe-possibly-be-true suffices and the story of the “China girl”, as she was called, seeded Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s new novel The Dragonfly Sea and inspired the creation of its protagonist Ayaana, who comes to be known as “the Descendant”. The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is a novel that explores the life of a girl living in Pate Island of Lamu Archipelago and her ties with the flowing and ebbing waves of the sea, the nourishing soil and the many people who arrive in Pate never to leave and many others whose stay is ephemeral and unmoored.
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