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The Door of No Return - Door of No Return (Hardback)
Kwame Alexander (author)Published: 02/03/2023
An intensely powerful coming-of-age story steeped in African tradition and mythology, Alexander's lyrical novel centres on eleven-year-old Kofi and the harrowing event that separates him from his family and village and sends him on an epic journey across the sea.
The #1 New York Times bestseller Dreams are today's answers for tomorrow's questions. Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, where he lives.<?p>
He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. But when the unthinkable - a sudden death - occurs during a festival between rival villages, Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. Yet Kofi's dreams may be the key to his freedom...
Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781839133244
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 544 g
Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 38 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting, comforting and cutting" - Lupita Nyong'o
"a gripping coming-of-age story" - Guardian
"An intensely powerful coming-of-age story steeped in African tradition and mythology" - Waterstones
"An unflinching and essential reminder that African American history begins in Africa, not in slavery" - The School Librarian
"[Alexander's] most ambitious work to date... This is a powerful work which draws much of its power from its portrayal of Kofi's life among the Asante and Kofi's restlessly upbeat and curious, if rather innocent, nature" - Books for Keeps
"This illuminating, lyrical trilogy-opener follows a West African boy’s journey from his Asante Kingdom hometown to the brutal crossing of a ferocious sea" - LoveReading4Kids
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