Search Sweet Country (Penguin Modern Classics)

Accra, Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses of this sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of characters live, love and try to get by: an idealistic professor, a beautiful young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt politician, a healer and a man intent on founding his own village. Through their stories, and those of the living, breathing city itself, Kojo Laing’s dazzling novel creates a portrait of a place caught between colonialism and freedom, eternity and the present.

First published in 1986, Search Sweet Country won numerous awards, vast critical acclaim. This edition includes a glossary that features the author’s neologisms as well as Ghanaian words.

‘The finest novel written in English ever to come out of the African continent’ Binyavanga Wainaina