- Published: 5 November 2019
- ISBN: 9780241370094
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $26.00
Search Sweet Country
- Published: 5 November 2019
- ISBN: 9780241370094
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $26.00
Surreal and satirical ... Laing has found an original voice that is all the stronger for making few concessions to the Western reader: wild, sophisticated, sorrowful
New York Times
Gleefully energetic ... there is an extravagant hopefulness in Kojo Laing
London Review of Books
Laing pushed the English language to its limits and beyond, by fusing Oxbridge English with West African Pidgin, elements from African languages and his own coinings, aiming at creating one gigantic, living and truly cosmopolitan language ... A treasure trove of imagery and refelctions which are just as amusing, relevant and thought-provoking as when they were written
The Voice
Kojo Laing is one of the unsung heroes of African fiction. His prose is poetic, densely packed with strange juxtapositions and more ideas on one page than most writers use for several books. Search Sweet Country is an amazing achievement
Johannesburg Review of Books
Reading Search Sweet Country is like reading a dream ... Each page delivers an intense blast of vivid imagery, a world in which landscapes come to life when inanimate objects receive human characterization ... Laing is a master stylist, and Search Sweet Country delivers an absorbing, if demanding, world for both its characters and the reader
Uzodinma Iweala, Slate Magazine
An intricate, beautifully rambling novel ... a compelling and rewarding read
Publishers Weekly
Search Sweet Country can be read over and over, continually surprising with a fresh turn of phrase or nuance in character, always engaging, always beautiful. The search is worthwhile
Pittsburgh Gazette
Exuberantly reels with language and imagery reminiscent of the early Joyce
Library Journal
A figurative, comic treat, filled with wild characters and dizzy, wink-filled prose
FlavorWire
African literature's greatest linguistic innovator
Brittle Paper Magazine