Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi

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Author:  Taiye Selasi ISBN:  9780670919864 Weight:  990g Dated and signed first edition, first printing Availability:      2 in stock, prompt dispatch Our price:  £15.99 –+ Add to Basket

Ghana Must Go – Taiye Selasi

A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

This is the story of a family – of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together.

It is the story of the Sais family, whose good life crumbles in an evening; a Ghanaian father, Kwaku Sai, who becomes a highly respected surgeon in the US only to be disillusioned by a grotesque injustice; his Nigerian wife, Fola, the beautiful homemaker abandoned in his wake; their eldest son, Olu, determined to reconstruct the life his father should have had; their twins, seductive Taiwo and acclaimed artist Kehinde, both brilliant but scarred and flailing; their youngest, Sadie, jealously in love with her celebrity best friend.  All of them sent reeling on their disparate paths into the world.  Until, one day, tragedy spins the Sais in a new direction.

This is the story of a family: torn apart by lies, reunited by grief.  A family absolved, ultimately, by that bitter but most tenuous bond: familial love.

With her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period.  An astonishing debut.

Teju Cole, author of Open City