- Politics and government, Boys, Brothers, Fiction
"Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: in the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 154
- Publisher
- Kailas, Heinemann, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- und, Spanish, baq, swa
- ISBN
- 9788481369120
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