Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic. 'A wondrous discovery.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'Aidoo has reaffirmed my faith in the power of the written word.' Alice Walker 'Modest, lyrical, reflective and intelligent .. Deserves as wide an audience as it can get.' Angela Carter 'Ver do you come from?' she asked Sissie. 'Ghana.' 'Is that near Canada?' Sissie is leaving Ghana for the first time. Arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education, she plunges into this new continent's heart of whiteness, observing the strange customs of the natives. Drinking cocktails at the German Embassy, she cringes at her countrymen. In a Bavarian castle, she is seduced...
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