{"product_id":"our-sister-killjoy-faber-editions-9780571388004","title":"Our Sister Killjoy Faber Editions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoin a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A wondrous discovery.'' \u003cb\u003eChimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey.''\u003cb\u003e Tsitsi Dangarembga\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Aidoo has reaffirmed my faith in the power of the written word.'' \u003cb\u003eAlice Walker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Modest, lyrical, reflective and intelligent .. Deserves as wide an audience as it can get.'' \u003cb\u003eAngela Carter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Ver do you come from?'' she asked Sissie. ''Ghana.'' ''Is that near Canada?''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSissie is leaving Ghana for the first time. Arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education, she plunges into this new continent''s heart of whiteness, observing the strange customs of the natives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrinking cocktails at the German Embassy, she cringes at her countrymen.\u003cbr\u003eIn a Bavarian castle, she is seduced by the lonely mother of Little Adolf.\u003cbr\u003eIn freezing London, she witnesses been-tos' sharing myths of an overseas idyll.\u003cbr\u003eIn between continents, she writes a letter on the plane to her exiled former lover.\u003cbr\u003eBut it is not sent. She will tell these tales back at home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAma Ata Aidoo''s landmark debut \u003ci\u003eOur Sister Killjoy \u003c\/i\u003eexploded into the world in 1977. With its blistering feminist satire of the West African diaspora, colonial legacies and toxic racism, expressed in a radical literary form - prose poetry, letter, manifesto - its provocative impact remains unmatched half a century on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduced by Ayesha Harruna Attah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577393910103,"sku":"9780571388004","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571388004.jpg?v=1746095118","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-sister-killjoy-faber-editions-9780571388004","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}