Petals of Blood
of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Moses Isegawa (Introduction)
Description
The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human-rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.First time in Penguin Classics
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432 pages
- Publisher Penguin Classics
- Publication Date February 22nd 2005
- First Publication 10/30/77
- Language English
- ISBN 9780143039174
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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