Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Description

When a young man is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi, his grief-stricken father and sister bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands. But the murder has stirred up memories long since buried, precipitating a series of events no one could have foreseen.

As the truth unfolds, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, hidden deep within the shared past of a family and their conflicted nation.?Spanning Kenya?s turbulent 1950s and 1960s,?Dust?is spellbinding debut from a breathtaking new voice in literature.