A Grain of Wheat
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780435900366 (0435900366)
Publish date: April 8th 1970
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
African Literature,
Kenya,
Post Colonial
A Grain of Wheat centres a political narrative about the struggle for independence and liberation in Kenya; about rebellion against British imperialism, and on this level it is searing, laying bare the injustice from the point of view of a richly varied cast of rural Kenyan people. Ngugi draws on Co...
A story of Kenyan independence and the toll the preceding struggle took on people.Well, this is embarrassing--I don't know what to rate this. Based on the first couple pages I'd pegged it as a slog, and not expecting to enjoy it but feeling I should read it anyway for my world fiction challenge, rea...
'A Grain of Wheat' centers on Kenya's Uhuru, its attainment of independence and self-government, a time of celebration and pride. But Thiong'o uses it as a backdrop for a dark drama that is anything but celebratory. It is bleak and difficultly written. The first time I tried to read it I couldn't be...
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