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ISBN-10: 0143106767
ISBN-13: 9780143106760
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 06/05/2012
Dimensions: 7.60" L, 5.10" W, 0.80" H

A Grain of Wheat

Introduction by: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Editor: Chinua Achebe

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Price: $18.00

Overview

Barack Obama, via Facebook “A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships.”

The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writers best-known novel, featuring an introduction by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah

Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya’s independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village’s chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers’ tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.

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ISBN-10: 0143106767
ISBN-13: 9780143106760
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 06/05/2012
Dimensions: 7.60" L, 5.10" W, 0.80" H
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