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A magical novel of love, exploration and home, spanning the East African coast, China, Turkey and the seas in between, from one of Kenya’s leading writers.
The Dragonfly Sea follows the unforgettable Ayaana’s journey to adulthood after her small-island childhood is interrupted. Targeted first by religious fundamentalists and second by Chinese emissaries, Ayaana is sent on a container ship to study in China, where she is forced to grow up fast. With its epic scope and lush lyricism, Owuor evokes a fascinating kind of beauty in this dangerous, chaotic world and its ever-shifting oceans and trade. A transcendent story of love and adventure, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world.

На острове Пате у побережья Кении живет своевольная Аяана вместе с матерью Мунирой. Когда в их жизни появляется моряк Мухиддин, в его лице Аяана обретает отца. Но по мере взросления природа вносит коррективы в планы девушки. Ей предстоит покинуть родную землю и отправиться в морское путешествие на Восток, учиться в Китае, быть соблазненной наследником турецкой бизнес-империи и отправиться с ним в Стамбул, пережить несправедливость и насилие, вернуться на родной остров Пате, встретив там маленькую сестру, найти любовь и обрести себя. Роман о взрослении, о переживаниях подростка, о путешествии женщины и о поиске дома внутри…

This is the story of a man who once had the universe at his feet. A man used to glamour, refined food, beautiful women and who travelled the globe on a whim. Boniface was once a royal prince of a French speaking African country. He finds himself suddenly thrown into a world of dissarray when the political situation in his homeland brutally flings him into an Anglophone country in exile. Kenya no less.

When a young man is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi, his grief-stricken father and sister bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands. But the murder has stirred up memories long since buried, precipitating a series of events no one could have foreseen. As the truth unfolds, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, hidden deep within the shared past of a family and their conflicted nation. Spanning Kenya’s turbulent 1950s and 1960s, Dust is spellbinding debut from a breathtaking new voice in literature.