Dreams in a Time of War by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Presenting a portrait of his experiences as a young boy in an African nation in flux, the author describes his day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers.
In his crowded career and his eventful life, Ngugi has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial, and linguistic currents -- John Updike * The New Yorker *
Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the leading writers and scholars at work in the world today. His books include the novels Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977, A Grain of Wheat and Wizard of the Crow; the memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War, In the House of the Interpreter and Birth of a Dream Weaver; and the essays, Decolonizing the Mind, Something Torn and New and Globalectics. Recipient of many honours, among them ten honorary doctorates, he is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846553776 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846553776 |
| Title | Dreams in a Time of War |
| Author | Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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