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Ranging back and forth between satire, metaphor and stark realism, Ngugi unfolds a tangible landscape both beautiful and horrfying, as tribalism and village life are manipulated in the name of progress by the cynical bureaucrats.
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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)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1938. One of the leading African writers and scholars at work today, he is the author of many novels, short stories, essays, a memoir, and several plays, and recipient of numerous high honors. Currently he is Distinguished Professor in the School of Humanities and director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine. Moses Isegawa was born in Uganda and is the author of the novels Abyssinian Chronicles and Snakepit.
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- PublisherPearson Education Limited
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0435908340
- ISBN 13 9780435908348
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