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Petals of Blood

Petals of Blood

Isegawa, Moses
Achebe, Chinua
Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi

Paperback

Series: Penguin African Writers, Book 1

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0143039172
ISBN13: 9780143039174
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Feb 22 2005
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
The definitive African book of the twentieth century (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer

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 intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time.

First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human-rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.

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