Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: in the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Description
"The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. It is--on the surface--a suspenseful investigation of a triple murder. But as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Covering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence-and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States- Ngũgĩ's collection features women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society, big men in their Bentleys who have inherited power from the British, and rebels who still embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. One of Ngũgĩ's most beloved...
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