Нгуги Ва Тхионго — книжные серии

Сборник рассказов крупнейшего кенийского прозаика Нгуги Ва Тхионго. В книгу вошли рассказы "Ньороге", "Возвращение Камау", "Венчание на кресте", "Миг торжества", а также одноактная пьеса "Завтра в это время".

Ngugi’s reflection on a key chapter in Kenya’s past - the period just before independence – explores the question of nationalism and the challenges an independent Kenya will face.

Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river.

This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in her home town of Ilmorog. On her journey she is handed an invitation to a feast of thieves, a competition organized by the devil.

The international outcry over the detention of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o without trial by the Kenyan authorities even reached him in prison. In this book he describes the purposeful degradation and humiliation of prison life.

Ngugi and Micere Mugo have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the trial of one of the celebrated leaders of the Mau Mau revolution.

Should Remi, the first of his tribe to go to university, return to his people? Or should he continue to be a black hermit in the town?

В книгу включены два романа известного африканского прозаика Нгуги ва Тхионго - "Пшеничное зерно" и "Распятый дьявол", в которых автор рассказывает о борьбе кенийцев за независимость и о современной Кении, раздираемой антагонистическими классовыми противоречиями.

This is a powerful, moving story that details the effects of the infamous Mau Mau war, the African nationalist revolt against colonial oppression in Kenya, on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a rubbish heap and look into their futures. Njoroge is excited; his family has decided that he will attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. Together they will serve their country - the teacher and the craftsman. 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. For the practical Kamau the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up.

Retold by Margaret Tarner.

Нгуги, писатель кенийской литературы на английском языке. Еще совсем недавно Восточная Африка казалась "литературной пустыней". Но в последние десятилетия начался бурный рост восточноафриканских литератур, появились писатели, творчество которых привлекает сегодня внимание читателей во всем мире. Настоящий сборник предлагает познакомиться с романом кенийского писателя, пишущего на английском языке, Нгуги Ва Тхионго "Пшеничное зерно", рассказами и отрывками из книги "Возвращение домой".