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Wizard of the Crow

Wizard of the Crow( )
Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o,
ISBN:978-1-84655-034-8
Publication Date:Aug 2006
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Harvill Secker
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $59.95
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Book Details
Pages:784
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.3 x 24.5 x 4.7 cm
Book Weight:1.069 Kilograms
Author Biography
Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Author)
Novelist, playwright, and essayist, Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kenya on January 5, 1938. He received a B.A. in English from Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda in 1963. He is Kenya's best-known writer and one of East Africa's most outspoken social critics. His first novel, Weep Not, Child (1964), was a penetrating account of the Mau Mau uprising (a tribal revolt that occurred in colonial Kenya) and was the first English-language novel by an East African. Two subsequent works, The River Between (1965) and A Grain of Wheat (1967), are sensitive novels about the Kikuyu people caught between the old and the new Africa.

One of his major concerns has been the lack of reading materials in native African languages. In an attempt to bring literature to African peasants and workers, he wrote and produced the play I Will Marry When I Want (1977) in his native Kikuyu language. The play, which shows the exploitation of Kikuyu workers and peasants, attracted a large audience of poor Kenyans. It also led to Ngugi's arrest and imprisonment. After his release from prison, he went into exile and is currently living in the United States. His other works include Detained (1981); Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986); and Matigari (1987). He received the 2001 Nonino International Prize for Literature. In 2006, Random House published his first new novel in nearly two decades, Wizard of the Crow.

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