THIS EARTH, MY BROTHER . . . BY KOFI AWOONOR
Book Conditions:
Paperback $75 USD: Condition: good. Some shelf or storage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are intact. The pages appear unmarked. Page edges are lightly foxed.
Hardcover $150 USD: Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: has some tears (see pictures). Binding solid. Pages unmarked but slightly aged. Page edges are foxed.
Additional pictures can be sent. Please email lifeisgood@thehcjunction.com for any additional questions.
About the Author & the Book:
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.
Back Cover: “With ‘This Earth, My Brother,’ . . . the story describes the pain of Awoonor’s voluntary exile and his spiritual return to his native land. Like his hero, the young lawyer Amamu, Awoonor tries to come to terms in this novel with the conflicting realities of independence. . .Gnawed by the futility of his life, torn between the tedium of a bourgeois marriage and the unreality of an affair, constantly faced with the contrast between the arrogant Western section of Accra and the African inner city of the Nima district, Amamu breaks down. . .”
Back Cover: “This Earth, My Brother, fusing the language of history and poetry, represents one of the most significant attempts in any literature today to reconcile man with himself.”
Awoonor, now an ancestor, was a poet, a playwright, a novelist, a civil servant, a teacher, an explorer, courageous, an ambassador, a family man, an advocate for the Ewe culture, a social justice advocate. Throughout his life, Awoonor contributed significantly to the Arts and nurtured the sustainability of the Arts in Ghana.
Book Conditions:
Paperback $75 USD: Condition: good. Some shelf or storage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are intact. The pages appear unmarked. Page edges are lightly foxed.
Hardcover $150 USD: Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: has some tears (see pictures). Binding solid. Pages unmarked but slightly aged. Page edges are foxed.
Additional pictures can be sent. Please email lifeisgood@thehcjunction.com for any additional questions.
About the Author & the Book:
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.
Back Cover: “With ‘This Earth, My Brother,’ . . . the story describes the pain of Awoonor’s voluntary exile and his spiritual return to his native land. Like his hero, the young lawyer Amamu, Awoonor tries to come to terms in this novel with the conflicting realities of independence. . .Gnawed by the futility of his life, torn between the tedium of a bourgeois marriage and the unreality of an affair, constantly faced with the contrast between the arrogant Western section of Accra and the African inner city of the Nima district, Amamu breaks down. . .”
Back Cover: “This Earth, My Brother, fusing the language of history and poetry, represents one of the most significant attempts in any literature today to reconcile man with himself.”
Awoonor, now an ancestor, was a poet, a playwright, a novelist, a civil servant, a teacher, an explorer, courageous, an ambassador, a family man, an advocate for the Ewe culture, a social justice advocate. Throughout his life, Awoonor contributed significantly to the Arts and nurtured the sustainability of the Arts in Ghana.
Book Conditions:
Paperback $75 USD: Condition: good. Some shelf or storage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are intact. The pages appear unmarked. Page edges are lightly foxed.
Hardcover $150 USD: Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: has some tears (see pictures). Binding solid. Pages unmarked but slightly aged. Page edges are foxed.
Additional pictures can be sent. Please email lifeisgood@thehcjunction.com for any additional questions.
About the Author & the Book:
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.
Back Cover: “With ‘This Earth, My Brother,’ . . . the story describes the pain of Awoonor’s voluntary exile and his spiritual return to his native land. Like his hero, the young lawyer Amamu, Awoonor tries to come to terms in this novel with the conflicting realities of independence. . .Gnawed by the futility of his life, torn between the tedium of a bourgeois marriage and the unreality of an affair, constantly faced with the contrast between the arrogant Western section of Accra and the African inner city of the Nima district, Amamu breaks down. . .”
Back Cover: “This Earth, My Brother, fusing the language of history and poetry, represents one of the most significant attempts in any literature today to reconcile man with himself.”
Awoonor, now an ancestor, was a poet, a playwright, a novelist, a civil servant, a teacher, an explorer, courageous, an ambassador, a family man, an advocate for the Ewe culture, a social justice advocate. Throughout his life, Awoonor contributed significantly to the Arts and nurtured the sustainability of the Arts in Ghana.