{"id":59409,"date":"2020-01-27T02:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T02:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59409"},"modified":"2020-01-27T02:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T02:05:56","slug":"a-storm-blew-in-from-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59409","title":{"rendered":"A Storm Blew in from Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldeditions.org\/product\/a-storm-blew-in-from-paradise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A Storm Blew in from Paradise<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldeditions.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Editions<\/a><br \/>\n2019-11-05<br \/>\n252 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-64286-044-3<br \/>\nEbook ISBN: 978-1-64286-051-1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Anyuru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Johannes Anyuru<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTranslated by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelwillsonbroyles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rachel Willson-Broyles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldeditions.org\/product\/a-storm-blew-in-from-paradise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldeditions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ANYURU_AStormBlewInFromParadise.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A storm blew in from paradise. That storm was life.\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>P\u2019s greatest dream is to fly. While training to become a Ugandan fighter pilot in an academy outside <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Athens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Athens<\/a>, the 1971 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1971_Ugandan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idi Amin coup<\/a> in his homeland, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uganda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uganda<\/a>, disrupts his plans. He defects and becomes a man on the run. In this extraordinary novel based on his own father\u2019s fate, Anyuru evokes P\u2019s struggles in gorgeous, vivid prose. As a refugee, as a military-camp prisoner, and as an exile, P never gives up hope and continues to dream of a life as a pilot. Told across two generations in a language that simmers with lyrical longing, this search for identity and purpose soars from a world in which nowhere is home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this extraordinary novel based on his own father\u2019s fate, Anyuru evokes P\u2019s struggles in gorgeous, vivid prose. As a refugee, as a military-camp prisoner, and as an exile, P never gives up hope and continues to dream of a life as a pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1245,11,8,15],"tags":[30622,30623,30620,30621,14015,30619],"class_list":["post-59409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-idi-amin","tag-idi-amin-dada-oumee","tag-johannes-anyuru","tag-rachel-willson-broyles","tag-uganda","tag-world-editions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59410,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59409\/revisions\/59410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}