Book description
Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for
hundreds of years. Here, the men and women speak the language of the
forest, drink aphrodisiacs with their palm wine and walk alongside the
spirits of their ancestors. The discovery of sinister remains -
possibly human, definitely 'evil' - and the disappearance of a local
man brings the intrusion of the city in the form of Kayo, a young
forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even
the most inexplicable of mysteries.
As old and new worlds clash and clasp, and Kayo and his sidekick,
Constable Garba, delve deeper into the case, they discover a truth
that leaves scientific explanations far behind.
Born in the UK in 1974 and raised in Ghana, Nii Parkes lives in
Manchester. He has performed poetry in the UK, Europe, Ghana and the US
and was a 2005 Associate Artist-in-Residence with BBC Radio 3. In 2007
he was writer-in-residence at California State University, and became
one of the youngest living writers to be featured in the Poems on the
Underground programme in London for his poem
Tin Roof
.
Tail of the Bluebird
is his first novel.
