Dreams From My Father: A Story Of Race And Inheritance

Author: Barack Obama

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Price : 24.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781921351433
Publisher : The Text Publishing Company
Imprint : Text Publishing
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Weight (g) : 0.326
Publication date : 01 February 2008
Dimensions : 198mm X mm
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Author : Barack Obama
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Description

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

Awards

Winner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Tesco Biography of the Year 2009.