A Grain of Wheat

Informationen zum Autor Ngugi wa Thiong'o Klappentext Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of WEEP NOT CHILD (1964), THE RIVER BETWEEN (1965), and PETALS OF BLOOD (1977). Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi from 1972 to 1977. He left Kenya in 1982 and taught at various universities in the United States before he became professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University in 1992. Zusammenfassung A novel that portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. It features a reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret.

About the author

Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) was born in Limuru, Kenya, and went on to become one of the leading writers and scholars of our times. He authored numerous works of fiction, memoir and essay, including A Grain of Wheat, Devil on the Cross and Decolonizing the Mind. Ngugi was the Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine; he held fourteen honorary doctorates, among other awards, and was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Ngugi wa Thiong&apos, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, O, Ngugi wa o, Thiong&apos, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
• Assisted by: Abdulrazak Gurnah (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.02.2002
• EAN: 9780141186993
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118699-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Kenya, Narrative theme: Politics, National liberation and independence