✍ Scribed by wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls "one of the greatest writers of our time"
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong 'o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From "The Fig Tree" written in 1960, his first year as an undergraduate at Makere University College in Uganda, to the playful "The Ghost of Michael Jackson," written while a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine, these collected stories reveal a master of the short form.
Covering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the bittersweet experience of independence--and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States--Ngũgĩ's characters include women fighting for their space in a patriarchal society, big men in their Bentleys and Mercedes who have inherited power from the...
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