num_pages: 216
description: Winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing 2010 (fiction). Destined from birth to inhabit two very different worlds - that of her father the wealthy Joseph Sakavungo and that of her mother his mistress - this emotive tale takes us to the heart of a young girl's attempts to come to terms with her own identity and fashion a future for herself from the patchwork of the life she was born into. Beautifully constructed warm and wise this is a novel that will transport the reader to a world in which we can all become more of the sum of our parts.
language: English
title: Patchwork
publisher: Penguin