{"product_id":"faber-faber-our-sister-killjoy-faber-editions-a-treasure-tsitsi-dangarembga","title":"Our Sister Killjoy","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoin a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe’s heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e''Ver do you come from?'' she asked Sissie. ''Ghana.'' ''Is that near Canada?''\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSissie is leaving Ghana for the first time. Arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education, she plunges into this new continent''s heart of whiteness, observing the strange customs of the natives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrinking cocktails at the German Embassy, she cringes at her countrymen.\u003cbr\u003eIn a Bavarian castle, she is seduced by the lonely mother of Little Adolf.\u003cbr\u003eIn freezing London, she witnesses ‘been-tos’ sharing myths of an overseas idyll.\u003cbr\u003eIn between continents, she writes a letter on the plane to her exiled former lover.\u003cbr\u003eBut it is not sent. She will tell these tales back at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAma Ata Aidoo''s landmark debut Our Sister Killjoy exploded into the world in 1977. With its blistering feminist satire of the West African diaspora, colonial legacies and toxic racism, expressed in a radical literary form - prose poetry, letter, manifesto - its provocative impact remains unmatched half a century on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ama Ata Aidoo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953323339823,"sku":"9780571388004","price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780571388004.jpg?v=1770798220","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/faber-faber-our-sister-killjoy-faber-editions-a-treasure-tsitsi-dangarembga","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}