@article{337539, author = {Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/337539}, title = {Petals of blood /}, publisher = {Penguin Books,}, abstract = {"The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. It is--on the surface--a suspenseful investigation of a triple murder. But as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time"--P. [4] of cover.}, recid = {337539}, pages = {xix, 409 p. ;}, address = {New York :}, year = {2005}, }