Weep Not, Child (Penguin African Writers Series, Bk. 3)
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Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage-heap and look into their futures. Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: in the forests the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family must decide where their loyalties lie. The practical Kamau’s choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up.
Set in rural Kenya during the 1950s, the novel explores the effects of colonialism and the insurgency on ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular.
“One of the greatest writers of our time.” — The Guardian“One of the signal novels to emerge from an artist listening to both the well of tradition and the troubled oracles of his time… In Weep Not, Child, Ngugi’s art is at its purest. To my mind it is classic Ngugi, his Romeo and Juliet, his tale of young love set against the backdrop of opposing families and a world seething with violence and injustice.” — Ben Okri (from the Introduction)
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ISBN: 9780143106692
Published Date: June 5, 2012
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Page Count: 176
Size: 7.73" l x 5.05" w x 0.51" h
Category
Fiction