Freedom Song

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From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, acollected novel in three parts and tender ode to quotidianlife and family loyalties

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayerwakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, hasbeen hired to cure a 'sick' sweet factory that doesn't particularly want to becured. Across town, Khuku's brother worries about his son's affiliations withthe Communist Party, but only because they may affect his ever-so-graduallycoalescing marriage prospects.

 

Freedom Song is a work of fiction that plays with big ideas while evokingthe smallest aspects of everyday life with acute tenderness and extraordinarybeauty.