Our Sister Killjoy (Faber Editions) 'A treasure.' Tsitsi Dangarembga

<p><b>Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe’s heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.</b><br><br>'A wondrous discovery.' <b>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</b><br>'A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey.'<b> Tsitsi Dangarembga</b><br>'Aidoo has reaffirmed my faith in the power of the written word.' <b>Alice Walker</b><br>'Modest, lyrical, reflective and intelligent .. Deserves as wide an audience as it can get.' <b>Angela Carter</b><br><br><i>'Ver do you come from?' she asked Sissie. 'Ghana.' 'Is that near Canada?'</i><br><br>Sissie is leaving Ghana for the first time. Arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education, she plunges into this new continent's heart of whiteness, observing the strange customs of the natives.<br><br>Drinking cocktails at the German Embassy, she cringes at her countrymen.<br>In a Bavarian castle, she is seduced by the lonely mother of Little Adolf.<br>In freezing London, she witnesses ‘been-tos’ sharing myths of an overseas idyll.<br>In between continents, she writes a letter on the plane to her exiled former lover.<br>But it is not sent. She will tell these tales back at home.<br><br>Ama Ata Aidoo's landmark debut <i>Our Sister Killjoy </i>exploded into the world in 1977. With its blistering feminist satire of the West African diaspora, colonial legacies and toxic racism, expressed in a radical literary form - prose poetry, letter, manifesto - its provocative impact remains unmatched half a century on.<br><br><b>Introduced by Ayesha Harruna Attah</b></p>