Dreams from my Father
by A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Pub Date 31 Oct 2016 | Archive Date 31 Dec 2020
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Description
The number one bestseller from Former President Barack Obama
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, retracing 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.
Advance Praise
'An American classic, written with grace and precision'
Observer
'Thoughtful, moving and brilliantly written'
The Times
'A man with a phenomenal life story'
Spectator
'Extraordinary . . . It's unique. It's his. There are no other ones like that'
TONI MORRISON
'A bestseller because of its freshness and honesty'
Sunday Times
'A well-written account of Obama's struggle to establish his own views on identity and race, and all the more entertaining for its honesty'
Financial Times
'The only politician's life I have read that made me cry . . . elegant and surprising prose as well as a solid personal statement'
The Times
'With its honesty and cool language, and by virtue of having a story worth telling, the book impresses far more than the typical political memoir'
Sunday Herald
'Obama has written a memoir . . . that evokes the anguish of miscegenation yet culminates in a cry of faith in human community . . . Obama is a born narrator, with a mastery of colour, scene and personality, deftly stirring them into the melting pot of a shared American identity. Rarely has that identity found so vivid a portraitist'
Sunday Times
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781782119258 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
