Peter Kimani is an award-winning Kenyan author and journalist. He works across a broad spectrum of genres – from fiction to non-fiction, poetry and plays. His latest novel, Dance of the Jakaranda, was published in New York in February 2017, to great critical acclaim.
Peter Kimani’s much-anticipated book is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a 2018 nominee for Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, which honors the best writing from Black America and abroad. The book is a historical novel that re-imagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Kenya at the turn of the last century. But this could well be a story of globalization—not just for its riveting multiracial, multicultural cast – but also due to its diverse literary allusions, from Chekhovian comedy to Kafkasque caricatures, or magical realism popularized by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
In the Times, critic Fiametta Rocco remarked: “I grew up in Kenya, and I have never read a novel about my own country that’s so funny, so perceptive, so subversive and so sly.”
The audiobook is narrated by renowned Kenyan broadcaster John Sibi-Okumu.
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