137pp, paperback, Reprint, Cape Town (1964) 2020
Novel set during the Mau Mau War in Kenya.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1938. He is the author of A Grain of Wheat; Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; Birth of a Dream Weaver; Wrestling with the Devil and Minutes of Glory. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine,