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A Grain of Wheat (Penguin African Writers Series) Paperback - 2012
by wa Thiong'o, Ngugi
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- Title A Grain of Wheat (Penguin African Writers Series)
- Author wa Thiong'o, Ngugi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition unknown
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics
- Date 2012-06-05
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0143106767
- ISBN 9780143106760 / 0143106767
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.8 in (19.30 x 12.95 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Kenya
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012007184
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
The best-known novel by the great Kenyan writer
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.