A grain of wheat / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ; introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah.

9780143106760 (pbk.)
0143106767 (pbk.)

New York : Penguin Books, 2012.

English

xvi, 242 p. ; 20 cm.

PR9381.9.N45 G73 2012

823/.914

"Set 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 villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. 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."--Publisher.

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