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«My Father's Dreams» is the first book by Barack Obama, who at the time of its release in 1995 was known only as a public figure and the first ever black president of the Harvard Law Review. It is to this fact, or rather to the interest of publishers in Obama's personality caused by this fact, that Barack Obama owes his writing debut, and the book is a definite, «commissioned» focus on his biography.

This rather detailed story about the young years of the future politician, and later the President of the United States, is a very atypical story of a black American, far from stereotypes: Childhood in a white mother's family and studying at a prestigious school, life in distant exotic Indonesia, and thus, from an early age, awareness of very different societies, openness to life in very different strata of society, a long and exhausting history of relations with his father, a trip to Kenya, meeting and accepting the African part of his family.

But paradoxically, this is a universal story about the challenges of modernisation and family trauma, colonialism and loneliness, in which Ukrainian readers may find much more familiar, painful, mournful and hotly debated than one might expect from an American author.

Reviews of the book

"This is the most honest, bold and ambitious story told by a major US politician in 50 years." -  The Guardian

"Extraordinary!" - Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel Prize for Literature