B. Obama My Father's Dreams. A Story About Race and Heritage Book

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 black president in Harvard Law Review. It is to this fact, or rather to the publishers' interest in the figure of Obama, that Barack Obama owes his literary debut, and the book to a definite, "commissioned" focus on his biography. This rather detailed account of the young years of the future politician, and later of the President of the United States, is a very atypical, far from stereotypical story of a black American: childhood in a white mother's family and study at a prestigious school, life in distant exotic Indonesia, and therefore from in the early years of familiarity with 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 kind. However, paradoxically, it is a universal story about the challenges of modernization and family trauma, colonialism and loneliness, in which Ukrainian readers can see much more familiar, painful, mournful and hotly debated than one might expect from an American author.