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A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin African Writers
The best-known novel by the great Kenyan writer. Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, "A Grain of Wheat" follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the ...Show more
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; Abdulrazak Gurnah (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is 1963 and Kenya is on the verge of Uhuru - independence day. The mighty British government has been toppled, and in the lull between the fighting and the new world, colonised and coloniser alike reflect on what they have gained and lost. In the village of Thabai, the men and women who live there h ...Show more
Devil on the Cross by Wa Thiong'o Ngugi
Category: Literature | Series: African Writers Series
This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in her home town of Ilmorog. On her journey she is handed an invitation to a feast of thieves, a competition organized by the devil.
Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin African Writers Ser.
The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee's novel that he wrote in secret, on toilet paper, while in prison--as described in his memoir Wrestling with the DevilOne of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's fame, Devil on the Cross is a powerful fictional critique of capitalism. It tells the tragi ...Show more
Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Category: Biography Memoir
Here, Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this memoir describes the author's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included 24 children born to four different mothers.
Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry K ...Show more
Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Category: Fiction
After decades of British rule Kenya has declared its independence, but drought and poor harvests still govern the village of Ilmorog. Undeterred by nature, Munira, Karega, Wanja, and Abdulla, move to Ilmorog in search of a more provincial life, only to find themselves suspects in a crime that signals a ...Show more
RIVER BETWEEN by THIONG'O NGUGI WA
Category: Fiction | Series: Heinemann African Writers Series
Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river. The people are torn between those who believe in Western/Christian education and the opportunities it will offer, and those w ...Show more
The Heart of a Stranger - An Anthology of Exile Literature by Andre Naffis-Sahely; Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction
A fascinatingly diverse anthology of the literature of exile, from the myths of Ancient Egypt to contemporary poetry Exile lies at the root of our earliest stories. Charting varied experiences of people forced to leave their homes from the ancient world to the present day, The Heart of a Stranger is an ...Show more
The Perfect Nine by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Category: Fiction
A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls 'one of the greatest writers of our time' Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the Guardian and the New York Times Book Review; he has be ...Show more