Birth of a dreamer, Thiong`o, Ngugi Wa

Автор: Wa Thiong`o, Ngugi
Название: Wizard of the Crow
ISBN: 1784873357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784873356
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: To honour the Ruler`s birthday, the Free Republic of Aburiria set out to build a tower; Among the contenders: the eponymous Wizard, an avatar of folklore and wisdom;Informed by traditional African storytelling, Wizard of the Crow is widely considered Ngugi wa Thiong`o`s masterpiece.

Автор: Ngugi wa Thiong`o
Название: A Grain of Wheat
ISBN: 0141186992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141186993
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A novel that portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. It features a reticent Mugo, the village`s chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret.

Автор: Ngugi wa Thiong`o
Название: Devil on the Cross
ISBN: 0143107364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143107361
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later a corrupt businessman. As Wariinga struggles to survive, she realizes that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal malaise and that much of the misfortune stems from the Western, capitalist influences on her country.

Автор: Ngugi wa Thiong`o
Название: The River Between
ISBN: 0141187034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141187037
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and `magical` customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. Some fellow Joshua and his fiery brand of Christianity while others proudly pursue tribal independence.

Автор: Thiong`O, Ngugi Wa
Название: Petals of Blood
ISBN: 0143039172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143039174
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: ';The definitive African book of the twentieth century' (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prizenominated 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 Bloodis 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.

Автор: Ngugi Wa Thiong`o
Название: Birth of a Dream Weaver
ISBN: 1620972409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781620972403
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 15910.00 T
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Описание: "Birth of a Dream Weaver" charts the very beginnings of a writer s creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong o recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda threshold years where he found his voice as a playwright, journalist, and novelist, just as Uganda, Kenya, Congo, and other countries were in the final throes of their independence struggles.
James Ngugi, as he was known then, is haunted by the emergency period of the previous decade in Kenya, when his friends and relatives were killed during the Mau Mau Rebellion. He is also haunted by the experience of his childhood in a polygamous family and the brave break his mother made from his father s home. Accompanied by these ghosts, Ngugi begins to weave stories from the fibers of memory, history, and a shockingly vibrant and turbulent present.
What unfolds in this moving and thought-provoking memoir is both the birth of one of the most important living writers lauded for his epic imagination ("Los Angeles Times") and the death of one of the most violent episodes in global history.
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Автор: Banham Martin
Название: African Theatre 13: Ngugi Wa Thiong`o and Wole Soyinka
ISBN: 1847010989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847010988
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: Directors and collaborators assess and comment on the production of plays by West Africa`s Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and East Africa`s most influential author Ngugi wa Thiong`o.

Автор: Wa Thiong`o, Ngugi
Название: Perfect nine
ISBN: 191121599X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911215998
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, full of trial and sacrifice, The Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about the founding of Kenya's Gikuyu people and the ideals of beauty, courage and unity. 'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieGikuyu and Mumbi settled on the peaceful and bounteous foot of Mount Kenya after fleeing war and hunger. When ninety-nine suitors arrive on their land, seeking to marry their famously beautiful daughters, called The Perfect Nine, the parents ask their daughters to choose for themselves, but to choose wisely.

First the young women must embark on a treacherous quest with the suitors, to find a magical cure for their youngest sister, Warigia, who cannot walk. As they journey up the mountain, the number of suitors diminishes and the sisters put their sharp minds and bold hearts to the test, conquering fear, doubt, hunger and many menacing ogres, as they attempt to return home. But it is perhaps Warigia's unexpected adventure that will be most challenging of all.

Blending folklore, mythology and allegory, Ngugi wa Thiong'o chronicles the adventures of Gikuyu and Mumbi, and how their brave daughters became the matriarchs of the Gikuyu clans, in stunning verse, with all the epic elements of danger, humour and suspense. 'A tremendous writer... it's hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong'o' Guardian