Description From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss.
She lives in Nairobi, Kenya..
Her work has appeared in Mc Sweeney\'s and other publications, and she has been a TEDx Nairobi speaker and a Lannan Foundation resident.
Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, she has also received an Iowa Writers\' Fellowship.
She is the author of the novel Dust, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize.
About the author YVONNE Adhiambo Owuor was born in Kenya.
Told with a glorious lyricism and an unerring sense of compassion, The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world.
Ayaana ends up embarking on a dramatic ship\'s journey to the Far East, where she will discover friends and enemies; be seduced by the charming but unreliable scion of a powerful Turkish business family; reclaim her devotion to the sea; and come to find her own tenuous place amid a landscape of beauty and violence and surprising joy.
But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life and the island itself--from a taciturn visitor with a murky past to a sanctuary-seeking religious extremist, from dragonflies to a tsunami, from black-clad kidnappers to cultural emissaries from China.
When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father.
On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira.
Description From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss
