Soaring spellbinding utterly epic MUSA OKWONGA A time-travelling wonder of a read PATERSON
JOSEPH A work of fierce imagination NII AYIKWEI PARKES WHERE IS ADA? In a small village in West
Africa in what will one day become Ghana Ada gives birth again and again the baby does not
live. As she grieves the loss of her child Portuguese traders become the first white men to
arrive in the village an event that will bear terrible repercussions for Ada and her kin. WHEN
IS ADA? Centuries later Ada will become the mathematical genius Ada Lovelace Ada a prisoner
forced into prostitution in a Nazi concentration camp and Ada a young pregnant Ghanaian
woman with a new British passport who arrives in Berlin in 2019 for a fresh start. WHO IS ADA?
Ada is not one woman but many and she is all women - she revolves in orbits looping from one
century and from one place to the next. And so she experiences the hardship but also the joy
of womanhood: she is a victim she offers resistance and she fights for her independence. This
long-awaited debut from Sharon Dodua Otoo paints an astonishing picture of femininity
resilience and struggle with deep empathy and humour with vivid language and infinite
imagination. An impressive and highly original work brimming over with energy TLS Ada's Realm
pushes boundaries . . . More power to her pen! MARGARET BUSBY Thrillingly astonishingly
original. R. O. KWON A rule-shattering novel Kirkus Reviews Translated from the German by Jon
Cho-Polizzi
