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A Grain of Wheat (Penguin African Writers)

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ISBN: 9780143106760
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Page Count: 272
Publication Date: 6/5/2012
Size: 7.80" l x 5.15" w x 0.83"
Series: N/A

Category Subject
Fiction Literary
Fiction Historical
The best-known novel by the great Kenyan writer

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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