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Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Petals of Blood

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

345 pages first pub 1977 (view editions)

fiction literary mystery emotional mysterious slow-paced
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Ranging back and forth between satire, metaphor and stark realism, Ngugi unfolds a tangible landscape both beautiful and horrfying, as tribalism and village life are manipulated in the name of progress by the cynical bureaucrats.

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