Dreams in a time of war
Subtitle: a childhood memoir
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Edition: First Anchor Books edition.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780307476210
Subjects: Family; Kenyan Authors; Biography; Kikuyu (African people); History; World War, 1939-1945; Personal narratives; Colonial influence; Social conditions; Families
Description: "Born in 1938 in rural Kenya, Ngugi wa Thiong'o came of age in the shadow of World War II, amidst the terrible bloodshed in the war between the Mau Mau and the British. The son of a man whose four wives bore him more than a score of children, young Ngugi displayed what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning, yet it was unimaginable that he would grow up to become a world-renowned novelist, playwright, and critic."