Description: "A lovely, magical book." -- The Washington Post "A brilliant imagist who uses poetry and drama to convey his inquisitiveness, frustration, and sense of wonder." -- Newsweek Brilliant. . . . Transcendant. . . . It locates the lost child in all of us, underneath language, inside sound and smell, wide-eyed, brave and flummoxed. . . . Soyinka belongs in the company of . . .V. S. Naipaul, V. S. Pritchett, and Vladimir Nabokov." -- The New York Times "A delightful memoir." -- The Atlantic "Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer and arguably her finest. . . . Ake is aclassic of African autobiography, indeed a classic of childhood memoirs wherever and whenever produced." -- The New York Times Book Review

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