Secret Lives & Other Stories
$31.39
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2018
Summary
‘One of the greatest writers of our time’ - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ngugi wa Thiong’o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer. First published in 1975, Secret Lives and Other Stories brings together a range of Ngugi’s political short stories.
From tales of the meeting between magic and superstition, to stories about the modernising forces of colonialism, and the pervasive threat of nature, this collection celebra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784873370 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784873373 |
| Author: | Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 12mm |
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A visionary writer
A tremendous writer… It’s hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong’o * Guardian *One of Kenya’s greatest storytellers * Financial Times *A visionary writer * Daily Telegraph *In his crowded career and eventful life, Ngugi has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer, caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial and linguistic currents * New Yorker *
About The Author
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the leading writers and scholars at work in the world today. His books include the novels Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977, A Grain of Wheat and Wizard of the Crow; the memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War, In the House of the Interpreter and Birth of a Dream Weaver; and the essays, Decolonizing the Mind, Something Torn and New and Globalectics. Recipient of many honours, among them ten honorary doctorates, he is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
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