{"product_id":"prodigal-by-kayo-chingonyi","title":"Prodigal by Kayo Chingonyi","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"productInfo\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productContentWrap\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productContent\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDATE OF RELEASE: 11 FEB 2027\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe extraordinary memoir from Dylan Thomas Prize-winning poet, Kayo Chingonyi. Did leaving begin the hold that writing would have over my life as a wrote into this most expansive of absences? 1993. Shortly after his father’s death, six-year-old Kayo leaves Zambia with his mother on a plan bound for a new life in Newcastle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLater, he learns that his father died from a HIV-related illness, a fate suffered by many Zambians, and some time afterwards, he becomes a young carer to his mother as the virus takes her too. 2016. Now a celebrated young poet, Kayo receives a message from a relative in Zambia he has not heard from in almost 25 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe realises it is time to go back. In Prodigal, Dylan Thomas Prize-winning poet Kayo Chingonyi tells the story of that return and the winding journey that led him there. He reflects on the guilt and shame at the stigma of his parents' deaths, the uncertainty of a fraught coming-of-age, and reckoning with the challenge of writing his future when he didn't fully know his past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat emerges is a joyous tribute to the healing power of music, poetry and love, and a deeply moving account of how, in seeking to better understand those we love, we might also come to know ourselves and what it is to be human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003ePublication: 11 Feb 2027, Fourth Estate\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008497965 | \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 272 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57863680164222,"sku":null,"price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9780008497965.jpg?v=1787043145","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/prodigal-by-kayo-chingonyi","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}