The River Between
A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee
A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. The River Between explores life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.
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April 28, 2015
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He lives in Irvine, California.
Devil on the Cross
Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Introduction by Namwali Serpell
In the House of the Interpreter
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The River Between
Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Introduction by Uzodinma Iweala
Down Second Avenue
Es'kia Mphahlele
A Grain of Wheat
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Weep Not, Child
Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Introduction by Ben Okri; Series Editor: Chinua Achebe
Dreams in a Time of War
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Wizard of the Crow
Ngugi wa'Thiong'o
Devil on the Cross
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The River Between
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
A Grain of Wheat
Ngugi wa Thiong'o