In the house of the interpreter
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Ngugi wa'Thiong'o
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780307907691
Subjects: Kenyan Authors; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; Biography; HISTORY / Africa / East; Revolutionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Description: "From the world-renowned Kenyan novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic, the second volume of his memoirs, spanning 1955-1959, the author's high school years during the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising. In the House of the Interpreter evokes a haunting childhood at the end of British colonial rule in Africa, and the formative experiences of a political dissident"--