Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir

✍ Scribed by Thiong'o, Ngugi wa

• Book ID: 110023323
• Publisher: The New Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781620973349

✦ Synopsis

"The Ngugi of Wrestling with the Devil called not just for adding a bit of color to the canon's sagging shelf, but for abolition and upheaval."
--Bookforum**
An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge**

Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population.

In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ngũgĩ--the world-renowned author...