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"The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. It is--on the surface--a suspenseful investigation of a triple murder. But as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time"--P. [4] of cover.
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About the book
- Author
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 349
- Publisher
- Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks, New Africa Books, Heinemann
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- tur, rum, English
- ISBN
- 9786053143864
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