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“In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
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En estas memorias líricas, sobrias y profundamente conmovedoras, el hijo de un padre africano negro y una madre estadounidense blanca busca un sentido viable para su vida como afroamericano. La historia comienza en Nueva York, donde Barack Obama se entera de que su padre —una figura que conoce más como un mito que como un hombre— ha muerto en un accidente automovilístico. Esta muerte repentina da inicio a una odisea emocional: primero a un pequeño pueblo de Kansas, desde donde recorre la migración de la familia de su madre hasta Hawái, y luego a Kenia, donde conoce el lado africano de su familia, enfrenta la amarga verdad sobre la vida de su padre y, finalmente, logra reconciliar su herencia dividida.
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