A Grain of Wheat
$33.21
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
7 February 2000
Summary
A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa’s great writers.
Originally published in 1967, Ngugi’s third novel is his best known and most ambitious work. A Grain of Wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. As the action follows the village’s arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, this is a novel of stories within stories, a narrative interwoven with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141186993 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141186992 |
| Author: | Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Abdulrazak Gurnah |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 7 February 2000 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o is the author of Weep Not Child (1964), The River Between (1965), and Petals of Blood (1977). 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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