An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favoured for the Nobel Prize, endured in a Kenyan jail
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.
One of the greatest writers of our time
*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*
A tremendous writer... It's hard to doubt the power of the written
word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong’o
*Guardian*
Ngugi is affording us a glimpse into how a prisoner of conscience,
by stubbornly reiterating his convictions, keeps faith with the
ideals that those in power want him to betray... This thrilling
testament to the human spirit had, for me, a fierce resonance... I
could not help feeling that his luminous words were meant for those
victims and many others being persecuted across the world, a way of
urging humanity to never surrender to the demons of fear and
silence
*New York Times*
One of Kenya's greatest storytellers
*Financial Times*
A visionary writer
*Daily Telegraph*
In his crowded career and 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
*New Yorker*
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