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The
2004 Award
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A
Season of Waiting
by David Omowale |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| No
day ends for Nesta Koffi without sending her children to ask for a letter
at the post office. The letter from her husband, who went to work in America,
never comes and her waiting only yields a report of his death. Seen through the eyes of a 16-year-old boy, Karim, and told with child-like verve and a deceptive simplicity, A Season of Waiting captures the agony of women waiting for husbands who leave them in their search for better opportunities; and mirrors how they cope with this absence and grow stronger because of it. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| David Omowale was born and educated on the island of Grenada in the Caribbean. He taught sociology and worked as Chief of Physical Planning in Grenada before going to work in Kenya for the UN Programme for Human Resettlement (UN-Habitat) in Nairobi. He has previously published a poetry anthology - Tongue of Another Dream - among other non-fiction works. A Season of Waiting is his first novel. |
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