num_pages: 400
description: 'You can't stop birds from flying can you Sameer? They go where they will...' 1960s UGANDA. Hasan struggles to keep his family business afloat following the sudden death of his wife. As he begins to put his shattered life back together piece by piece a new regime seizes power and a wave of rising prejudice threatens to sweep away everything he has built.Present-day LONDON. Sameer a young high-flying lawyer senses an emptiness in what he thought was the life of his dreams. Called back to his family home by an unexpected tragedy Sameer begins to find the missing pieces of himself not in his future plans but in a heritage he never knew.Moving between two continents over a troubled century We Are All Birds of Uganda is an immensely resonant novel that explores racial tensions generational divides and what it means to belong.
language: English
title: We Are All Birds of Uganda
publisher: Merky Books