Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Devil on the Cross

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025) was an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. In addition to Devil on the Cross, his novels A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood, The River Between, and Weep Not, Child are available from Penguin Classics. Namwali Serpell (introduction) has won the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. The author of the novels The Old Drift and The Furrows, she was born in Zambia and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a professor of English at Harvard.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9780143107361
• ISBN-10: 0143107364
• Artikelnr.: 39743482