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lepasseportlitteraire 's review for:
Kintu
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Do you like historical fiction, epic stories and multiple narrators? This book have it all, and more !
The book is divided into 6 books, all centering on a member of the Kintu descendance, starting from Kintu Kadda, the leader of the Buddu province in the kingdom of Buganda. During a trip to meet the new Kabaka (King) of Buganda, however, something horrible happens casting a curse on the Kintu descendance. The 5 books following the Kintu Kadda one will show how the curse has affected the Kintu descendance.
The writing of Makumbi is majestic, to the point that I immediately got myself another of her books while I was still reading Kintu. She manages to tell a complex story without becoming repetitive neither boring, and this was the only time I didn’t end up hating the presence of a genealogy tree at the beginning of the book.
As I said, this book has it all: an astonishing storytelling, suspense, attaching characters and also historical knowledge, I can’t even start to imagine the amount of work Makumbi put in this. If I had to only choose a word to describe Kintu, it would be MONUMENTAL
The book is divided into 6 books, all centering on a member of the Kintu descendance, starting from Kintu Kadda, the leader of the Buddu province in the kingdom of Buganda. During a trip to meet the new Kabaka (King) of Buganda, however, something horrible happens casting a curse on the Kintu descendance. The 5 books following the Kintu Kadda one will show how the curse has affected the Kintu descendance.
The writing of Makumbi is majestic, to the point that I immediately got myself another of her books while I was still reading Kintu. She manages to tell a complex story without becoming repetitive neither boring, and this was the only time I didn’t end up hating the presence of a genealogy tree at the beginning of the book.
As I said, this book has it all: an astonishing storytelling, suspense, attaching characters and also historical knowledge, I can’t even start to imagine the amount of work Makumbi put in this. If I had to only choose a word to describe Kintu, it would be MONUMENTAL