Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

• May-2017
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This 10-year anniversary edition celebrates a classic of Ugandan literature.First published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim, Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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"Men behave badly in these stories, women suffer or negotiate for power, families bicker and try to cooperate. There is Uganda, and there is Britain, and then all the miles in between." -- Los Angeles TimesHow far does one have to travel to find home...

• May-2019
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE HEARST BIG BOOK AWARDS 2019 AN AMBITIOUS AND ASSURED COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF KINTU If there's one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi's stories know, it's how to field an unc...

• Aug-2020
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'A COMING-OF-AGE CLASSIC' Stylist For one young girl, discovering what it means to become a woman in a family, a community and a country determined to silence her will take all the courage she has. Growing up in a small Ugandan village, Kirabo is sur...

• Sep-2020
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“Makumbi is such an honest, truthful writer. . . . I loved every single page.” -- Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage A Best Book of the Year at TIME; The Washington Post; O, the Oprah Magazine; BBC Winner of the Jhalak PrizeI...