The God Child

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'Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented' Taiye Selasi 'Adept, admirable, important' Guardian Maya grows up in Germany in the shadow of her beautiful, volatile mother: a whirlwind, spinning stories of the familys former glory. Then Kojo arrives. Kojo has a way of talking about Ghana, and empire, and history - and for the first time, Maya understands that her parents are exiles. But fate intervenes, and the cousins are separated. Returning to Ghana years later, Maya's homecoming sets off an exorcism of her countrys darkest demons. In this destructions wake Maya realises her purpose: to tell the story of her mother her cousin, their land and their loss, in her own voice.

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Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative, unapologetically inward-facing, seductively lyric ... Unprecedented -- Taiye Selasi
Adept, admirable, important * Guardian *
I read this novel very slowly. I didn't want to miss anything ... It is a rich, beautiful book and when I got to the end, I wanted to start again -- Chibundu Onuzo
A cultural juggernaut * Harper's Bazaar *
Hugely readable Dizzying Intriguing and engrossing A classic coming-of-age narrative Deeply concerned with Ghanaian history and the psychic dislocations of exile * Daily Mail *
It is a rare kind of woman who enjoys a project so vast that its practically unfinishable, but Nana Oforiatta Ayim, a Ghanaian writer and historian, never quits what she has started * Vogue *
One of the foremost architects of the contemporary African arts scene * Okay Africa *

Author Bio

Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a Ghanaian writer, art historian and filmmaker. She is founder of the ANO Institute of Arts & Knowledge, through which she has pioneered a pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia. Recently appointed a TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow to Oxford University, she is also the recipient of the 2015 Art & Technology Award from LACMA; of the 2016 AIR Award; and of the inaugural 2018 Soros Arts Fellowship. She is a contributor to the 2019 New Daughters of Africa anthology and in February 2019 delivered a TED Talk. Ayim will curate the Ghanas first pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019. The God Child is her first novel. She lives in Ghana.