The Door of No Return - Kwame Alexander

The Door of No Return

By: Kwame Alexander

Paperback | 30 January 2024

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From New York Times Bestselling author Kwame Alexander comes the first book in a breathtaking trilogy that tells the story of a boy, a village, and the epic odyssey of an African family.

The #1 New York Times bestseller

'At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting' Lupita Nyong'o

Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions.

Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgenat whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father’s father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. But when the unthinkable – a sudden death – occurs during a festival between rival villages, Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. Yet Kofi’s dreams may be the key to his freedom…

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