This is the story of how a brilliant but disillusioned man moves from a self-absorbed childhood and adolescence to a dramatic awakening to a life of love and duty that draws him out of himself and plunges him into the world of pure science as his way of serving God and neighbour. The reader journeys
A Grain of Wheat
โ Scribed by Thiong'o, Ngugi wa
- Book ID
- 107586016
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd
- Year
- 1967
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 469 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101584859
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โฆ Synopsis
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.
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The best-known novel by the great Kenyan writer 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 M
{ Sept 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover image, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 272 pages Published 1967 Penguin Classics (2012) Introduction by: Abdulrazak Gurnah (2002) In