Kintu (Anniversary Edition)
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
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 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.
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 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.
Product Details
| Publisher | Transit Books |
| Publish Date | June 04, 2024 |
| Pages | 456 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781945492839 |
| Dimensions | 7.9 X 5.2 X 1.3 inches | 1.1 pounds |
BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction, Literary Fiction
About the Author
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer, has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her story "Let's Tell This Story Properly" won the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Jennifer lives in Manchester, UK with her husband, Damian, and her son, Jordan.
Reviews
"A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told."--Marlon James
"Magisterial."--Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books
"Ancestral curses often 'explain' a group's essential character. But Makumbi inverts that conceit: What if a curse expressed all the ways that families, cities and nations fail to cohere?"--Julian Lucas, The New York Times
"With a novel that is inventive in scope, masterful in execution, she does for Ugandan literature what Chinua Achebe did for Nigerian writing."--Lesley Nneka Arimah, The Guardian
"A masterpiece of cultural memory, Kintu is elegantly poised on the crossroads of tradition and modernity."--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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