Petals of Blood

Petals of Blood
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 506
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ISBN-10 : 9781101662465
ISBN-13 : 1101662468
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Book Synopsis Petals of Blood by : Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Download or read book Petals of Blood written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer 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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