Petals of Blood - Softcover
After a terrible murder in the village of Ilmorog four suspects are placed in detention: Munira the headmaster; Abdullah the storekeeper; Karega the assistant teacher and 'barmaid' Wanja. The lives of these four characters are inextricably linked with the lives of the three murder victims, the fortunes of Ilmorog and with the fate of Kenya itself. Published to great controversy in 1977, PETALS OF BLOOD is as much a whodunnit as a political novel and satire. Ngugi unfolds a human landscape that is both beautiful and horrifying, as tribalism and village life are manipulated in the name of progress by the cynical bureaucrats who came to power as heroes of liberation.
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Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned. ("The New Yorker") A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair... a bombshell. ("The Weekly Review", Kenya) The definitive African book of the twentieth century. (Moses Isegawa)
"Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned." --The New Yorker
"Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned." --The New Yorker
"His novels . . . have been deservedly canonized by the iconic [Penguin Classics] series." --The Wall Street Journal "Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned." --The New Yorker "A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair . . . a bombshell." --The Weekly Review (Kenya)
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"Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned." --The New Yorker
"A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair... a bombshell." --The Weekly Review, Kenya
"Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned." The New Yorker
"A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair... a bombshell." The Weekly Review, Kenya"
"Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned." The New Yorker
"A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair... a bombshell." The Weekly Review, Kenya
""Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned." --The New Yorker
"A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair... a bombshell." --The Weekly Review, Kenya
"His novels . . . have been deservedly canonized by the iconic [Penguin Classics] series." --The Wall Street Journal "Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned." --The New Yorker "A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair . . . a bombshell." --The Weekly Review (Kenya)
Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of THE RIVER BETWEEN, A GRAIN OF WHEAT and PETALS OF BLOOD all available as Modern Classics. Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi from 1972 to 1977. He left Kenya in 1982 and taught at various universities in the United States before he became professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University in 1992.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0141187026
- ISBN 13 9780141187020
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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