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Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of WEEP NOT CHILD (1964), THE RIVER BETWEEN (1965), and PETALS OF BLOOD (1977). Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi from 1972 to 1977. He left Kenya in 1982 and taught at various universities in the United States before he became professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University in 1992.

A Grain of Wheat

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    A Paperback / softback by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Abdulrazak Gurnah

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 7 February 2002
      ISBN-13 9780141186993
      978-0141186993
      ISBN-10 0141186992
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      Fiction Historical Fiction Non Fiction History National liberation and independence

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      Book Synopsis
      Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o is the author of WEEP NOT CHILD (1964), THE RIVER BETWEEN (1965), and PETALS OF BLOOD (1977). Ngugi was chair of the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi from 1972 to 1977. He left Kenya in 1982 and taught at various universities in the United States before he became professor of comparative literature and performance studies at New York University in 1992.

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