A powerful memoir of an extraordinary Kenyan childhood by an international literary giant
Ngugi wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the university of California, Irvine, and is director of the university's International Centre for Writing and Translation. His books include Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977 and Wizard of the Crow, which was published by Harvill Secker to great acclaim in 2006. He lives in Irvine, California.
In his crowded career and his eventful life, Ngugi has enacted, for
all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a
contemporary African writer caught in sometimes implacable
political, social, racial, and linguistic currents
*The New Yorker*
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