A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
A Grain of Wheat

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

A Grain of Wheat

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

272 pages first pub 1967 (editions)

fiction historical challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya’s independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo...

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