PETALS OF BLOOD

409pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (1977) 2018

Novel set in Kenya in the early 1950s during the Mau Mau rebellion.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in Limuru, Kenya. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, memoirs and literary criticism. His novels include Weep Not, Child, The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, Devil on the Cross and The Perfect Nine: the epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi. His plays include I Will Marry When I Want (with Ngugi wa Mirii), The Black Hermit and The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (with Micere Githae Mugo).