Petals Of Blood - Ngugi wa Thiongo
Petals Of Blood - Ngugi wa Thiongo "The definitive African book of the twentieth century" (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writerThe puzzling murder of three…
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Petals Of Blood - Ngugi wa Thiongo
"The definitive African book of the twentieth century" (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writerThe 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. 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. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya.
His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case,
Petals of Blood