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portada Petals of Blood
Type
Physical Book
Author
Illustrated by
Introduction by
Publisher
Year
2005
Language
English
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.6 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm
Weight
0.34 kg.
ISBN
0143039172
ISBN13
9780143039174
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Petals of Blood

Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Author) · Chinua Achebe (Illustrated by) · Moses Isegawa (Introduction by) · Penguin · Paperback

Petals of Blood - Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Synopsis "Petals of Blood "

"The definitive African book of the twentieth century" (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet 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. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human-rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) was a Kenyan writer, academic, and cultural activist, whose work marked a before and after in postcolonial literature. His essay Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986) remains a fundamental text in postcolonial studies, and his later novels and plays, written in Kikuyu, solidified his advocacy for African languages as a tool for cultural liberation.

Ngũgĩ died on May 28, 2025, in Buford (Georgia, USA), at the age of 87. Although he never won a literary award like the Nobel, he was a recurring candidate and received significant recognitions such as the PEN/Nabokov Award (2022) and the Premi Internacional Catalunya (2019). His passing stirred emotions worldwide: Kenyan President William Ruto described him as an “emblematic figure of African letters”.
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Marvin Rosales Monday, June 26, 2023
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Aún no lo he empezado a leer, pero me parece que es de buena calidad la edición y empastado.

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