Penguin Classics, 2012. 152 pages. ISBN: 0143106767. This is a compelling account of the turbulence that inflamed Kenya in the 1950s and its impact on people's lives. Five friends and agemates make different choices when the Mau Mau rebellion erupts in colonial Kenya. Kihika joins the freedom fighters in the forest; Gikonyo supports the rebels, but is arrested and detained;...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 280 с. Нгуги ва Тхионго. Пшеничное зерно (на англ. яз.) Нгуги ва Тхионго, собственно Джеймс Нгуги (суахили Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, род. 5 января 1938, Камириитху, под Найроби) — известный кенийский писатель и драматург левых взглядов. Пишет на английском языке и языке кикуйю. В 2009 был номинирован на премию Букер за совокупность созданного. В 2010 и 2014...
London: Heinemann, 1989. — 232 p. Нгуги ва Тхионго. Тюремный дневник писателя (на англ. яз.) I would like to thank all those in Kenya, Africa and the world, who fought for my release and for all the political detainees in Kenya. In particular, I would like to mention the university students at Nairobi and some staff members; the Union of Writers of African Peoples; the Pan-African...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 254 с. Нгуги ва Тхионго. Распятый дьявол (на англ. яз.) Devil on the Cross is 1980 Gikuyu language novel (orig. title Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ) by Kenya novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, which was later republished as part of the influential African Writers Series in 1982.[1] The novel, though dealing with a diverse range of literary conventions and themes,...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 175 с. Нгуги ва Тхионго. Матигари (на англ. яз.) Wiping Your Tears Away. Seeker of Truth and Justice. The Pure and the Resurrected.
Heinemann Educational Books, 1989. 180 pages. ISBN: 0435905465. A moral fable in which Martigari, a freedom fighter, emerges from the forest in the political dawn of post-independence Kenya. Searching for his family and a new future, he finds little has changed.
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 410 с. Нгуги ва Тхионго. Лепестки крови (на англ. яз.) "Petals of Blood" is a novel written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and first published in 1977. Set in Kenya just after independence, the story follows four characters – Munira, Abdulla, Wanja, and Karega – whose lives are intertwined due to the Mau Mau rebellion. In order to escape city life, each...
Penguin Classics, 2005. 243 pages. ISBN: 0143039172. The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the...
Heinemann, 1965. 159 pages.
ISBN13: 9780435900175.
The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and "magical" customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. Some follow Joshua and his fiery brand of Christianity. Others...
Penguin Classics, 2012. — 99 p. — ISBN: 0143106694. The great Kenyan writer's powerful first novel. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government,...
Anchor, 2007. 673 pages. ISBN: 1400033845. In exile now for more than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong’o has become one of the most widely read African writers. Commencing in our times and set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control...
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