english: Now, I was quite willing to contend that there were a number of things wrong with the novel, that it had failed in a number of places, but I had not quite imagined that it had failed at achieving something called African authenticity.
non_english: Я вже була готова визнати, що щось не так з моїм романом, що деякі його частини невдалі, але я навіть не могла уявити, що моєму роману бракувало африканської автентичності.