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A Grain of Wheat

A Grain of Wheat

Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Achebe, Chinua
Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi

Paperback

Series: Penguin African Writers, Book 2

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0143106767
ISBN13: 9780143106760
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Jun 5 2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Barack Obama, via Facebook A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships.

The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's best-known novel

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.

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