Dreams from My Father

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Barack Obama

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Narrator: Barack Obama

Length: 7 hours and 12 min.


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Winner of the British Book Awards, Best Biography of the Year, 2009

The number-one international best seller - and the Grammy-award winner for best spoken album in 2006.

Before Barack Obama became a politician, he was, among other things, a writer. Dreams from My Father is a masterpiece: a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking the big questions about identity and belonging.

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother's family from Kansas to Hawaii, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father's life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.

©2004 Barack Obama; (P)2008 Barack Obama

Published: 14/08/2009, Canongate Books Ltd
Critics Reviews

"A remarkable story, beautifully told." (Observer)
"This may be the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician." (Joe Klein, Time magazine)
"Extraordinary . . . truly moving . . . Obama is a born narrator, with a mastery of colour, scene and personality." (Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times)

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Obama in the Car

Rachael

20/11/2009


I listened through my GPS in the car and I loved the fact that Obama narrated. Accents and all. Great work!

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