By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood.Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of …
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By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood.Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa's leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affected the lives of Africans under British colonial rule in particularly unexpected ways, Ngugi spent his childhood as very much the apple of his mother's eye before attending school to slake what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning.In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngugi deftly etches a bygone era, capturing the landscape, the people, and their culture; the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war; and the troubled relationship between an emerging Christianized middle class and the rural poor. And he shows how the Mau Mau armed struggle for Kenya's independence against the British informed not only his own life but also the lives of those closest to him.Dreams in a Time of War speaks to the human right to dream even in the worst of times. It abounds in delicate and powerful subtleties and complexities that are movingly told.From the Hardcover edition.
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Dreams in a time of war
256 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Anchor Books.
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- 978-0-307-47621-0Copied ISBN!
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Sueños en tiempos de guerra
Paperback, 272 pages
Spanish language
Published by Rayo Verde Editorial.
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- 978-84-16689-19-4Copied ISBN!
Somnis en temps de guerra
Paperback, 256 pages
Catalan language
Published by Raig Verd Editorial.
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Träume in Zeiten des Krieges
Paperback, 264 pages
German language
Published by FISCHER Taschenbuch.
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- 978-3-596-19233-5Copied ISBN!
Dreams in a Time of War
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English language
Published 2010 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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- 978-0-307-37895-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 650090696
Dreams in a Time of War
Paperback, 272 pages
Published by Anchor, Harvill Secker.
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Dreams in a time of war
256 pages
English language
Published 2010 by Pantheon Books.
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- 978-0-307-37883-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 401140955
Sueños en Tiempos de Guerra
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Published by Audible Studios on Brilliance, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio.
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- 978-1-7135-6883-4Copied ISBN!
Dreams In A Time Of War A Childhood Memoir
Published 2011 by Vintage Books USA.
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- 978-0-09-954852-2Copied ISBN!
Dreams in a time of war
158 pages
English language
Published 2010 by Kenway Publications.
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- 978-9966-25-756-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 651155107
Dreams in a Time of War
English language
Published 2010 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-1-4070-8543-2Copied ISBN!
Dreams in A Time of War
English language
Published 2010 by Penguin Random House.
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