Author: Barack Obama
Translator: Kyong-shik Lee
Publisher: Random House Korea
Hardcover | 712 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most
influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama
published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir,
which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in
2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to
understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African
father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the
American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny
African village of Alego.
Obama opens his story in New York, where he hears that his father—a
figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has died in a car accident.
The news triggers a chain of memories as Barack retraces his family’s
unusual history: the migration of his mother’s family from small-town
Kansas to the Hawaiian islands; the love that develops between his
mother and a promising young Kenyan student, a love nurtured by youthful
innocence and the integrationist spirit of the early sixties; his
father’s departure from Hawaii when Barack was two, as the realities of
race and power reassert themselves; and Barack’s own awakening to the
fears and doubts that exist not just between the larger black and white
worlds but within himself.
Propelled by a desire to understand both the forces that shaped him and
his father’s legacy, Barack moves to Chicago to work as a community
organizer. There, against the backdrop of tumultuous political and
racial conflict, he works to turn back the mounting despair of the inner
city. His story becomes one with those of the people he works with as he
learns about the value of community, the necessity of healing old
wounds, and the possibility of faith in the midst of adversity.
Barack’s journey comes full circle in Kenya, where he finally meets the
African side of his family and confronts the bitter truth of his
father’s life. Traveling through a country racked by brutal poverty and
tribal conflict, but whose people are sustained by a spirit of endurance
and hope, Barack discovers that he is inescapably bound to brothers and
sisters living an ocean away—and that by embracing their common
struggles he can finally reconcile his divided inheritance.
A searching meditation on the meaning of identity in America, Dreams
from My Father might be the most revealing portrait we have of a major
American leader—a man who is playing, and will play, an increasingly
prominent role in healing a fractious and fragmented nation.
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