Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Broschiertes Buch

In the House of the Interpreter

A Memoir

Beschreibung

While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi, things are changing at home. He arrives back for his first visit since starting school to find his house razed to the ground and the entire village moved up the road closer to a guard checkpoint.

Autor

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 673873
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780099572244
• ISBN-10: 0099572249
• Artikelnr.: 37231297

Rezensionen

Growing up in Kenya in the 1950s, the future novelist went to an elite school run by a Briton just as the Mau Mau uprising swept his family into the revolt against colonial rule. This powerful memoir depicts a youth torn between these separate worlds i