Devil on the Cross
$33.47
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2017
Summary
The great Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s influential novel, written in prison, offering a powerful critique of the “Satan of capitalism” and its effect on postcolonial Kenya.
The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee’s novel that he wrote in secret, on toilet paper, while in prison.
One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩwa Thiong’o’s fame, Devil on the Cross is a powerful fictional critique of capitalism. It tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143107361 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143107364 |
| Author: | Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 229g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin African Writers |
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“One of our century’s great novels.” – Tribune (UK)
One of our century’s great novels. Tribune Ngugi is the most celebrated of African novelists. What he offers is nothing less than a new direction for African writing. British Book News
About The Author
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025) was an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. In addition to Devil on the Cross, his novels A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood, The River Between, and Weep Not, Child are available from Penguin Classics.
Namwali Serpell (introduction) has won the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. The author of the novels The Old Drift and The Furrows, she was born in Zambia and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a professor of English at Harvard.
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