Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening

ISBN-13: 9781784701307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Opis

`Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University, it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s.

Recenzje

I particularly loved [Birth of A Dream Weaver]... Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Guardian, Book of the Year

O autorze

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.