Petals of Blood Paperback - 2005
by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; Introduction by Moses Isegawa; Chinua Achebe (Editor)
The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human-rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.
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The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human-rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.
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- Title Petals of Blood
- Author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; Introduction by Moses Isegawa; Chinua Achebe (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2005-02-22
- ISBN 9780143039174 / 0143039172
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 1.1 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Political fiction, Kenya
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005271659
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair... a bombshell." —The Weekly Review, Kenya
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