In the House of the Interpreter

Informationen zum Autor Ngugi wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the university of California! Irvine! and is director of the university's International Centre for Writing and Translation. His books include Petals of Blood! for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977! A Grain of Wheat and Wizard of the Crow. He lives in Irvine! California. Klappentext During the early fifties! Kenya was a country in turmoil. While the author enjoys scouting trips! chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi! things are changing at home. This title deals the author's schooldays in Kenya against the backdrop of the intensification of the struggle for independence.

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Growing up in Kenya in the 1950s, the future novelist went to an elite school run by a Briton just as the Mau Mau uprising swept his family into the revolt against colonial rule. This powerful memoir depicts a youth torn between these separate worlds i

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• Authors: Ngugi wa Thiong&apos, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, O, Ngugi wa o, Thiong&apos, Ngugi Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi wa Thiong'o
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2012
• EAN: 9781846556289
• ISBN: 978-1-84655-628-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 222 mm x 26 mm
• Series: HARVILL SECKER
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Novel-like biographies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Erinnerungen (div.) s.a. Einzelperson, Kenianische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.)