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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Availability: In Stock
ISBN: 9781782119258
AuthorObama, Barack
Pub Date15/12/2016
BindingPaperback
Pages464
CountryGBR
Dewey973.040596
SeriesCanons
Publisher: Canongate Books
Quick overview Barack Obama's number one bestseller in a new edition to tie in with the end of his landmark presidency
€12.76

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, President Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother's family from Kansas to Hawaii, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father's life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

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An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, President Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother's family from Kansas to Hawaii, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father's life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

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