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Dreams In A Time Of War
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 DescriptionHere, Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this memoir describes the author's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included 24 children born to four different mothers. Author descriptionNgugi wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the university of California, Irvine, and is director of the university's International Centre for Writing and Translation. His books include Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977 and Wizard of the Crow, which was published by Harvill Secker to great acclaim in 2006. He lives in Irvine, California. |
