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![]() | Dreams in a Time of War (2010) A Childhood Memoir A non fiction book by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
| "In his crowded career and his eventful life, Ngũgĩ has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial, and linguistic currents." John Updike |
Ngũgĩ was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa's leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affected the lives of Africans under British colonial rule in particularly unexpected ways, Ngũgĩ spent his childhood very much the apple of his mother's eye before attending school to slake what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning.
In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngũgĩ deftly etches a bygone era, capturing the landscape, the people and their culture, the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war, and the troubled relationship between an emerging Christianized middle class and the rural poor. And he shows how the Mau Mau armed struggle for Kenya's independence against the British informed not only his own life but also the lives of those closest to him.
Dreams in a Time of War speaks to the human right to dream even in the most adverse conditions. It abounds in delicate and powerful subtleties and complexities that are movingly told.
In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngũgĩ deftly etches a bygone era, capturing the landscape, the people and their culture, the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war, and the troubled relationship between an emerging Christianized middle class and the rural poor. And he shows how the Mau Mau armed struggle for Kenya's independence against the British informed not only his own life but also the lives of those closest to him.
Dreams in a Time of War speaks to the human right to dream even in the most adverse conditions. It abounds in delicate and powerful subtleties and complexities that are movingly told.
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Hardback Editions
March 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir Author(s): Ngugi wa'Thiong'o ISBN: 0-307-37883-7 / 978-0-307-37883-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Pantheon Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Dreams in a Time of War Author(s): Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ISBN: 1-84655-377-6 / 9781846553776 (UK edition) Publisher: Harvill Secker Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
March 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir Author(s): Ngugi wa'Thiong'o ISBN: 0-307-47621-9 / 978-0-307-47621-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Anchor Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Dreams in a Time of War Author(s): Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ISBN: 0-09-954852-6 / 978-0-09-954852-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
March 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir Author(s): Ngugi Wa Thiong'O Publisher: Anchor Availability: Amazon More details... |
March 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Dreams in a Time of War Author(s): Ngugi wa Thiong'o Publisher: Vintage Digital Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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