num_pages: 272
description: Ngugi wa Thiongos powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier he recalls armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenyas Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There Ngugi lives in a block alongside other political prisoners but he refuses to give in to the humiliation. He decides to write a novel in secret on toilet paper  it is a book that will become his classic Devil on the Cross.Wrestling with the Devil is Ngugis unforgettable account of the drama and challenges of living under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the pain caused by his isolation from his family but also the spirit of defiance and the imaginative endeavours that allowed him to survive.
language: English
title: Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
publisher: Vintage