Birth of a Dream Weaver

✍ Scribed by Thiong'o, Ngugi wa

• Book ID: 109552912
• Publisher: The New Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781620972670

✦ Synopsis

One of Oprah.com's "17 Must-Read Books for the New Year" and O Magazine's "10 Titles to Pick up Now."

“Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time. "
—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Guardian, Best Books of 2016.

“Every page ripples with a contagious faith in education and in the power of literature to shape the imagination and scour the conscience."
—The Washington Post
From one of the world's greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda

Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda—threshold years during which he found his voice as a...