A Grain of Wheat (Penguin African Writers)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (957 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143106767 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the AuthorNgugi wa Thiong'o is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. He was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and teaches English literature at the University of Kent in England. He lives in Irvine, California, where he is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of the Booker Prize–shortlisted novel Paradise, among other novels
As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The best-known novel by the great Kenyan writerSet in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of vi
Ngugi wa Thiong'o is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. . He was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and teaches English literature at the University of Kent in England. He lives in Irvine, California, where he is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Ca
Exodus from Africa Robert E. Olsen Ngugi wa Thiong'o, born into Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Gikuyu, in 1938, was educated at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda and the University of Leeds. His "Weep Not, Child," published in 1964, was the first novel in English to be published by an East African author. "A Grain of Wheat," Ngugi's postcolonial novel of political, social, sexual, and religio. "Good reading!" according to Phyllis. Very interesting book!. "BREATHTAKING" according to Neil S. Bezaire. If it is possible to imagine, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "A Grain of Wheat" surpasses the power and eloquence of Herman Hesse and Joseph Conrad. He traces the inner development of his characters with such deep understanding of the human condition that I was astounded and moved to tears and joy. He rises above the black vs. white issue and places his characters in the arena