In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir

ISBN-13: 9780099572244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Opis

During the early fifties, Kenya was a country in turmoil. While the author enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi things are changing at home. This book tells the story of his schooldays in Kenya against the backdrop of the intensification of the struggle for independence.

Recenzje

Growing up in Kenya in the 1950s, the future novelist went to an elite school run by a Briton just as the Mau Mau uprising swept his family into the revolt against colonial rule. This powerful memoir depicts a youth torn between these separate worlds i

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.