{"product_id":"kumukanda-1","title":"Kumukanda","description":"*Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018*\u003cbr\u003e*Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and, at times, darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief. A gorgeous and necessary collection from one of my favourite writers'' Warsan Shire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslating as ''initiation'', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi''s remarkable debut explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary; between the living and the dead; between the gulf of who he is and how he is perceived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderpinned by a love of music, language and literature, here is a powerful exploration of race, identity and masculinity, celebrating what it means to be British and not British, all at once.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize; Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry Collection Prize; Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; Roehampton Poetry Prize; Jhalak Prize 2018*","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55831455727951,"sku":"9781784741396","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781784741396_1-kumukanda.jpg?v=1770190743","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/kumukanda-1","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}