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A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of Wheat
Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
A Grain of Wheat is about Kenya on the verge of independence. Africans and Europeans alike pause, in the lull between the fighting and the new world, to see what they have gained and lost. Ngugi writes well and has a real talent for portraying the African background. With Ngugi, history is a living tissue. He writes with poise and from deep rese...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780435909871
ISBN-10: 0435909878
Publication Date: 1/1/1994
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Heinemann
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A historical fiction about Kenya in the midst of colonialism, civil war and finally independence. The structure of the novel is unique, it goes in and out of characters and time periods in a very fluid way so that the reader discovers everyone's secrets. The work clearly presents how war and perverted power relations (colonialism) mutilate the social connections and characters of individuals. The work uniquely privileges human yearnings and the domestic in a genre usually more enamored with politics and war. The story's message about justice is unusual.


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