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Ake : The Years of Childhood
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Ake : The Years of Childhood Paperback - 1989

by Soyinka, Wole

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  • Title Ake : The Years of Childhood
  • Author Soyinka, Wole
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
  • Date October 23, 1989
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4343420-20
  • ISBN 9780679725404 / 0679725407
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.14 x 5.16 x 0.63 in (20.68 x 13.11 x 1.60 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: West Africa
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Nigeria, Nigeria - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the publisher

Wole Soyinka is an internationally acclaimed playwright, poet, novelist, and critic, who served as professor of comparative literature at the University of Ife, Nigeria, until forced to flee the country during the regime of General Abacha in the 1990s. His books published in the U.S. include his Collected Plays and the memoir The Man Died: Prison Notes. Soyinka became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. He is now Professor in Residence at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

Media reviews

"A lovely, magical book." --The Washington Post

"A brilliant imagist who uses poetry and drama to convey his inquisitiveness, frustration, and sense of wonder." --Newsweek

Brilliant. . . . Transcendant. . . . It locates the lost child in all of us, underneath language, inside sound and smell, wide-eyed, brave and flummoxed. . . . Soyinka belongs in the company of . . . V. S. Naipaul, V. S. Pritchett, and Vladimir Nabokov." --The New York Times

"A delightful memoir." --The Atlantic

"Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably her finest. . . . Ake is a classic of African autobiography, indeed a classic of childhood memoirs wherever and whenever produced." --The New York Times Book Review

About the author

Wole Soyinka is an internationally acclaimed playwright, poet, novelist, and critic, who served as professor of comparative literature at the University of Ife, Nigeria, until forced to flee the country during the regime of General Abacha in the 1990s. His books published in the U.S. include his Collected Plays and the memoir The Man Died: Prison Notes. Soyinka became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. He is now Professor in Residence at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

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