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In the house of the interpreter : a memoir
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In the house of the interpreter : a memoir

Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2012.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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"--
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
ISBN: 9780307907691 0307907694
OCLC Number: 777657566
Description: 240 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Ngugi wa'Thiong'o.

Abstract:

"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"--
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