Petals of Blood - (Penguin African Writers) by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (Paperback)
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- "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.
- About the Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) was an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages.
- 432 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
- Series Name: Penguin African Writers
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Book Synopsis
"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.Review Quotes
"One of the greatest writers of our time." --Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Guardian "His novels . . . have been deservedly canonized by the iconic [Penguin Classics] series." --The Wall Street Journal "Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned." --The New Yorker "A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair . . . a bombshell." --The Weekly Review (Kenya)
About the Author
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) was an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. In addition to Petals of Blood, his novels Devil on the Cross, A Grain of Wheat, The River Between, and Weep Not, Child are available from Penguin Classics. Moses Isegawa (introduction) was born in Uganda and is the author of the novels Abyssinian Chronicles and Snakepit.Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x 1.1 Inches (D)
Weight: .75 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 432
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Series Title: Penguin African Writers
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Language: English
Street Date: February 22, 2005
TCIN: 81399934
UPC: 9780143039174
Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-1955
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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