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A Grain of Wheat

✍ Scribed by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o

Book ID
100453352
Publisher
Penguin Books; Penguin Group
Year
1967
Tongue
English
Weight
387 KB
Edition
Penguin Classics (2012)
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781101584859
ASIN
B0072NZZVC

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✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 272 pages
Published 1967
Penguin Classics (2012)
Introduction by: Abdulrazak Gurnah (2002)
In this ambitious and densely worked novel, we begin to see early signs of Ngugi's increasing bitterness about the ways in which the politicians are the true benefactors of the rewards of independence.
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.

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