Length2h 47m
About this audiobook
When a Walangila chief died, his family put his head in a clay pot and
waited for the snake. The boy is seven. The snake has been feeding for
ninety-one years. He is almost old enough to be told.
On a green ridge above Bukoba, on the western shore of Lake Victoria,
a grandmother raises her grandson on a single word — Walangilaki: what
could they do to me. Through four visits to the forbidden house with
the cone-shaped roof, through the first winter, through the burial that
changes everything, the boy learns what his family keeps, and what it
costs to keep it.
Book One of the SILT trilogy. A novel about the inheritance of how to
be unmoved — in the lineage of Achebe, Adichie, and Ishiguro.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length2 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 — The Pot
7Chapter 7 — The Visitors
2Chapter 2 — The First Winter
8Chapter 8 — Ngabire
3Chapter 3 — The Word
9Chapter 9 — What the Snake Ate
4Chapter 4 — Outside
10Chapter 10 — The Question Reversed
5Chapter 5 — The Burial
11Chapter 11 — The Lake
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6Chapter 6 — What the Workers Owed
12Chapter 12 — What the Fish Knew
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