Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative, unapologetically inward-facing, seductively lyric ... Unprecedented -- Taiye Selasi

Adept, admirable, important, Guardian

I read this novel very slowly. I didn't want to miss anything ... It is a rich, beautiful book and when I got to the end, I wanted to start again -- Chibundu Onuzo

A cultural juggernaut, Harper's Bazaar

Hugely readable . Dizzying . Intriguing and engrossing . A classic coming-of-age narrative . Deeply concerned with Ghanaian history and the psychic dislocations of exile, Daily Mail

It is a rare kind of woman who enjoys a project so vast that it's practically unfinishable, but Nana Oforiatta Ayim, a Ghanaian writer and historian, never quits what she has started, Vogue

One of the foremost architects of the contemporary African arts scene, Okay Africa
Biografía del autor
Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a Ghanaian writer, art historian and filmmaker. She is founder of the ANO Institute of Arts & Knowledge, through which she has pioneered a pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia. Recently appointed a TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow to Oxford University, she is also the recipient of the 2015 Art & Technology Award from LACMA; of the 2016 AIR Award; and of the inaugural 2018 Soros Arts Fellowship. She is a contributor to the 2019 New Daughters of Africa anthology and in February 2019 delivered a TED Talk. Ayim will curate the Ghana's first pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019. The God Child is her first novel. She lives in Ghana.