Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo 1938- creator Okri, Ben. text Domestic fiction. nyu New York Penguin Books 2012 monographic eng

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xvi, 149 p. ; 20 cm. "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 need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up.First published in 1964, Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular"-- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo ; introduction by Ben Okri. f-ke--- Brothers Fiction School of Business and Education FICTION / Literary School of Business and Education Kenya History Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 Fiction PR 9381.9 .T45 2012 PR 9381.9 .T45 2012 FIC019000 9780143106692 (pbk.) 2012006204 ftp://ppftpuser:welcome@ftp01.penguingroup.com/Booksellers and Media/Covers/2008_2009_New_Covers/9780143106692.jpg ftp://ppftpuser:welcome@ftp01.penguingroup.com/Booksellers and Media/Covers/2008_2009_New_Covers/9780143106692.jpg KyUL 120301 20250905121424.0 17189714