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Weep Not, Child

Weep Not, Child

Okri, Ben
Achebe, Chinua
Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi

Paperback

Series: Penguin African Writers, Book 3

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0143106694
ISBN13: 9780143106692
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Jun 5 2012
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's powerful first novel

Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up.

The first East African novel published in English, Weep Not, Child explores the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular.

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