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Devil on the Cross (Penguin African Writers Series)
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Devil on the Cross (Penguin African Writers Series) Paperback - 2017

by wa Thiong'o, Ngugi

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  • Title Devil on the Cross (Penguin African Writers Series)
  • Author wa Thiong'o, Ngugi
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition International Ed
  • Condition UsedVeryGood
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group
  • Date 2017-04-11
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ00FSL0_ns
  • ISBN 9780143107361 / 0143107364
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016048361
  • Dewey Decimal Code 896.395

Summary

The latest addition to the Penguin African Writers Series: the great Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful fictional critique of capitalism

One of the cornerstones of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s fame, Devil on the Cross was written in secret, on toilet paper, while Ngugi was in prison. It tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later by a corrupt businessman. As she struggles to survive, Wariinga begins to realize that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal malaise and that much of the misfortune stems from the Western, capitalist influences on her country. An impassioned cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and for African writers to work in their own local dialects, Devil on the Cross has had a profound influence on Africa and on post-colonial African literature.

Media reviews

“One of our century’s great novels.” Tribune
 
“Ngugi is the most celebrated of African novelists.  What he offers is nothing less than a new direction for African writing.” British Book News  
 
“Striking.” The Guardian

About the author

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He lives in Irvine, California.

Namwali Serpell (introducer) has won the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. The author of the novel The Old Drift, she was born in Zambia and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a professor of English at Harvard.