Kintu
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Aaron Bady (introduction)Winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize
Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
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"A soaring & sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told." — Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
"Ancestral curses often ‘explain’ a group’s essential character. But Makumbi inverts that conceit: What if a curse expressed all the ways that families, cities and nations fail to cohere?” — The New York Times
"Postcolonial literature is often thought of as a conversation between a native culture & a Western power that sought to dominate it . . . Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s marvelous Ugandan epic, Kintu, explodes such chauvinism." — Guernica
"With a novel that is inventive in scope, masterful in execution, she does for Ugandan literature what Chinua Achebe did for Nigerian writing." — Lesley Nneka Arimah, The Guardian
"With crisp details & precise prose, Makumbi draws us into the dynamic & vast world of Uganda—its rich history, its people’s intricate beliefs, & the collective weight of their steadfast customs." — World Literature Today
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First published in Kenya in 2014 to critical & popular acclaim, Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom.
Along the way, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan & a nation, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu's descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past & reconcile the inheritance of tradition & the modern world that is their future.
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