Dreams in a Time of War

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Dreams in a Time of War

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

2010 en

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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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Keywords

Authors, african
Authors, biography
Biography
Biography & Autobiography
Colonial influence
Families
Family
History
Kenya, history
Kenya, social conditions
Kenyan Authors
Kikuyu (African people)
Nonfiction
OverDrive
Personal Narratives
Social conditions
World War, 1939-1945
World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives

Editions

Contributors: Ngugi wa Thiong'o,
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2010-03-09
ISBN: 9780307378958
OCLC: 650090696
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Contributors: Ngugi wa Thiong'o,
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-08
ISBN: 9780307476210
OCLC: 641520566
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