000			01921nam a22002897a 4500
008			210308b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781408882351
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bNAN/GO
100			_aNana Oforiatta Ayim
245			_aGOD CHILD
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bBloomsbury Publishing _c2019/01/01
300			_g241
500			_a"Maya grows up in Germany knowing that her parents are different: from one another, and from the rest of the world. Her reserved, studious father is distant; and her beautiful, volatile mother is a whirlwind, with a penchant for lavish shopping sprees and a mesmerising power for spinning stories of the family's former glory - of what was had, and what was lost. And then Kojo arrives one Christmas, like an annunciation: Maya's cousin, and her mother's godson. Kojo has a way with words - a way of talking about Ghana, and empire, and what happens when a country's treasures are spirited away by colonialists. For the first time, Maya has someone who can help her understand why exile has made her parents the way they are. But then Maya and Kojo are separated, shuttled off to school in England, where they come face to face with the maddening rituals of Empire. Returning to Ghana as a young woman, Maya is reunited with her powerful but increasingly troubled cousin. Her homecoming will set off an exorcism of their family and country's strangest, darkest demons. It is in this destruction's wake that Maya realises her own purpose: to tell the story of her mother, her cousin, their land and their loss, on her own terms, in her own voice. "
650			_aGhana -- Fiction.
650			_aGermany
650			_aCousins
650			_aGhanaians
650			_aColonial influence
650			_aHomecoming
650			_aExiles
650			_aFamilies
942			_cLEN
942			_2ddc
999			_c183074 _d183074