Java Hill: an African Journey: A Nation’s Evolution Through Ten Generations of a Family Linking Four Continents

Name: Java Hill: an African Journey: A Nation’s Evolution Through Ten Generations of a Family Linking Four Continents
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ISBN: 9781479791194

ISBN-10: 1479791199

ISBN-13: 9781479791194

Edition: 2013

Authors: T Ulzen

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The personal is political . So went a popular saying in the heady 60s. In presenting the story of the Ulzens and Elmina as a metaphor for the African condition in history, this novel is an eloquent corroboration of this idea. I applaud the brutal honesty, not unmixed with touching empathy, with which the author narrates the details of political events and family dramas: characters, personalities, roles and relations marked by conscious and unwitting paradoxes, complicities, mixed motives behind noble stances and deeds. In a word, IRONY is the dominant prism through which the events are rendered.Ato Sekyi OtuProfessor Emeritus of Social and Political ThoughtYork University, Toronto, Ontario,…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Author Solutions
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 198
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English