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Patchwork - Ellen Banda-Aaku

Patchwork

By: Ellen Banda-Aaku

eBook | 1 February 2024

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Winner of the 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing.

In this coming-of-age novel, the acclaimed author Ellen Banda-Aaku offers a profound exploration into the effects of stigma, class, and family dynamics in 1970s Zambia.

'Everyone calls me Pumpkin. Firstly, because I was a fat, chubby-cheeked baby. And, secondly, because when Ma was pregnant with me, no matter how much pumpkin she ate, she just couldn't get enough...'

Pumpkin is a nine-year-old girl pulled between two vastly different worlds - that of her father, the wealthy and power-hungry Joseph Sakavungo, and her mother, his unstable mistress.

As Pumpkin attempts to come to terms with her own identity, will she be able to fashion a future for herself out of the torn patchwork of her life?

Beautifully constructed, Banda-Aaku moulds a story that is heart-rending and often bittersweet.

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