| Format | Paperback |
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Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
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| Print length: | 320 pages |
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| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Publication date: | 16 July 2018 |
| Dimensions: | 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm |
| ISBN-10: | 0241351081 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-0241351086 |
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A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’ If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents’ native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters. On she stumbles through teenage hardships — suicide, abortion, hunger, a Christmas spent alone — until she emerges into happiness- an oasis of friendship in Washington Heights, an affair in a dirty factory in Connecticut, and, finally, a journey down to the heat of Mexico, discovering sex, tenderness, and suppers of hot tamales and cold milk. This is Audre Lorde’s story. It is a rapturous, life-affirming tale of independence, love, work, strength, sexuality and change, rich with poetry and fierce emotional power. —- ISBN: 9780241351086 | ISBN10: 0241351081 | ISBN-13: 978-0241351086






