Ayanna Lloyd Banwo WHEN WE WERE BIRDS Signed Limited Edition
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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo WHEN WE WERE BIRDS Signed Limited Edition
Limited edition first print hardback of WHEN WE WERE BIRDS by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo and published by Hamish Hamilton (in Association with Goldsboro Books) in 2022. Signed by Banwo on a tipped in limitation page. Number 776 of 1500 copies printed. Blue page edges with stencilled fore edge.The book is in as new condition (red boards with black lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in a fine unclipped dust jacket which is protected in an archival sleeve and also has no wear to speak of. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets.
Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide's mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the dead. The women of Yejide's family are human but also not - descended from corbeau, the black birds that fly east at sunset, taking with them the souls of the dead.
Darwin and Yejide both have something that the other needs. Their destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the sprawling, ancient cemetery at the heart of Port Angeles, where trouble is brewing...
Rich with magic and wisdom, When We Were Birds is an exuberant, incantatory masterpiece that conjures and mesmerises on every line. Ayanna Lloyd Banwo weaves an unforgettable story of loss and renewal, darkness and light; a triumphant reckoning with a grief that runs back generations and a defiant, joyful affirmation of hope.
278 pages including Acknowledgements.
ISBN: 9780241502792
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