A Bold, New Novel for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt
Like an Outsider
Don Kenobi’s riveting new novel, Of Gods and Negroes, is the tale of an
outsider’s struggles to find understanding, equality and love
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HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA, February 28, 2006 – Don Kenobi’s novel, Of
Gods and Negroes,
beautifully traces the struggles of a young educated Nigerian as he desperately
searches for his place in life, or in the author’s words, his “place in the
sun.” While oppression, chaos and conflict all conspire against him, he
continues to seek fulfillment of his destiny and his desires.
How do we handle all the trouble that life deals us? Dedan Kimathi Black is a young, educated Nigerian who can be destroyed—but he will never be defeated. Despised by his society because he doesn’t fit in, he flees to the West. Once settled, he finds opportunity in a business tycoon, is befriended by a kindly priest and falls in love with Ollie, a beautiful young nun, who leaves the convent to be with him. Together they believe they might conquer the world, but their idyllic time is shattered when he suddenly loses her to another man. Can he forge another brave new world for himself? Dedan struggles to accept the cards that life has handed him. Will poetry save him? Or will Ay-ii, the mad Arab who takes him on a journey to the spirit world of Lokinanga, turn out to be the one to help him find happiness? It isn’t until he goes to Paris and reconnects with Ollie, that Dedan begins to think his life might have purpose after all. But then, another terrible turn of events leads him into shattering circumstances. Can he recover? Or will tragedy end up destroying him? Philosophical, spiritual, and touched with tragic romance, this is a brave, bold work about a life of conflict and a search for fulfillment that will leave every reader the wiser
Gorgeously written and grippingly told,
Of
Gods and Negroes is a stunning story of a courageous man.
Philosophical, spiritual, and touched with tragic romance, this is a brave,
bold work about a life of conflict and a search for fulfillment that will leave
every reader the wiser.
For more information or for a free
review copy, please contact the author at donkenobi@yahoo.com. Of
Gods
and Negroes is available for sale online at Amazon.com,
Borders.com, BookSurge.com, and through additional wholesale
and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
Along with being a distinguished novelist, Don
Kenobi is also a poet and a songwriter. With a Bachelor of Science degree in
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Don Kenobi currently works with one of
the big multinational oil companies in Nigeria. His wife is a contract analyst in Nigeria and they have two sons
and one daughter. Don Kenobi and his family live in Nigeria. While Of God and Negroes is his first novel,
it certainly will not be his last.
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