Petals of Blood: 1 (Penguin African Writers Series) - Softcover

Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143039172 ISBN 13: 9780143039174

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005

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Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. Petals of Blood is - on the surface - a suspenseful investigation of this spectacular triple murder. But 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

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"One of the greatest writers of our time." --Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Guardian

"His novels . . . have been deservedly canonized by the iconic [Penguin Classics] series." --The Wall Street Journal

"Ambitious, caustic, and impassioned." --The New Yorker

"A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair . . . a bombshell." --The Weekly Review (Kenya)

Reseña del editor:

The baffling murders of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery are set against the backdrop of the intertwined stories of the four suspects in the crime, in a novel, first published in 1977, about the struggles of a modern Third World nation. Reprint.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143039172
• ISBN 13: 9780143039174
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432