Weep not, child / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo ; introduction by Ben Okri.
2012
PR9381.9.N45 W44 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Weep not, child / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo ; introduction by Ben Okri.
Author
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938-
ISBN
9780143106692 (pbk.)
0143106694 (pbk.)
0143106694 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Penguin Books, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 149 p. ; 20 cm.
Call Number
PR9381.9.N45 W44 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.914
Summary
"Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: in the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up.First published in 1964, Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular"-- Provided by publisher.
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Okri, Ben.
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Penguin classics.
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