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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi in Conversation with Alicia Adams
| Location | Solid State Books, 600 H Street NE, Washington, DC 20002
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| Date | Monday, April 22, 2019 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
| Duration | 1 hours |
| Link | https://www.solidstatebooksdc.com/events/2019/4/22/jennifer-nansubuga-makumbi |
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| Repeats? | No |
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This event is in partnership with the Cheuse International Writers Center. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi published her award-winning debut novel Kintu to wide acclaim, and returns with Let’s Tell This Story Properly, a collection of stories of race, class, and the Ugandan immigrant experience in Britain. About Kintu: "A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told."—Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017 Winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 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 bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. Along the way, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan and a nation, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future. |
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