{"product_id":"9780571388004","title":"Our Sister Killjoy (Faber Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoin a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe’s heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A wondrous discovery.' \u003cb\u003eChimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey.'\u003cb\u003e Tsitsi Dangarembga\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Aidoo has reaffirmed my faith in the power of the written word.' \u003cb\u003eAlice Walker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Modest, lyrical, reflective and intelligent .. Deserves as wide an audience as it can get.' \u003cb\u003eAngela Carter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Ver do you come from?' she asked Sissie. 'Ghana.' 'Is that near Canada?'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSissie is leaving Africa for the first time, arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education.\u003cbr\u003eIn Germany, as guest of honour over embassy cocktails, she cringes at her countrymen.\u003cbr\u003eIn a Bavarian castle, she is seduced by a lonely local mother to Little Adolf.\u003cbr\u003eIn freezing London, she witnesses ‘been-tos’ sharing myths of an overseas idyll.\u003cbr\u003eIn between continents, she writes a letter on the plane to her exiled former lover.\u003cbr\u003eBut it is not sent. She will tell these tales back at home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAma Ata Aidoo's landmark debut \u003ci\u003eOur Sister Killjoy \u003c\/i\u003eexploded into the world in 1977. With its blistering feminist satire of the African diaspora, colonial legacies and toxic racism, expressed in a radical literary form - prose poetry, letter, manifesto - its provocative impact remains unmatched.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ama Ata Aidoo","offers":[{"title":"Faber \u0026amp; Faber |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2025-04-22","offer_id":46299077279999,"sku":"9780571388004","price":22.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_cec5809f-efda-403e-af1f-af14bc8e00cd.jpg?v=1730482830","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780571388004","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}