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A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair... a bombshell * The Weekly Review, Kenya * A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya. . . Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which power can take * Sunday Times * Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned * New Yorker *

Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned * New Yorker * A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya. . . Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which power can take * Sunday Times * A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair... a bombshell * The Weekly Review, Kenya *

Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned * New Yorker * A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya. . . Ngugi writes with passion about every form, shape and colour which power can take * Sunday Times * A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair… a bombshell * The Weekly Review, Kenya *

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of the leading writers and scholars at work in the world today. His books include the novels Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977, A Grain of Wheat and Wizard of the Crow; the memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War, In the House of the Interpreter and Birth of a Dream Weaver; and the essays, Decolonizing the Mind, Something Torn and New and Globalectics. Recipient of many honours, among them ten honorary doctorates, he is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

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