Name: The River Between (Penguin Modern Classics)
SKU: 49323982
Price: 539.00 TWD
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Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
ISBN: 9780141187037

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The River Between (Penguin Modern Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780141187037

Edition No.

The River Between (Penguin Modern Classics)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "The River Between (Penguin Modern Classics) "

The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and 'magical' customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. Some fellow Joshua and his fiery brand of Christianity while others proudly pursue tribal independence. In the midst of this disunity stands Waiyaki, a dedicated visionary born to a line of prophets. He struggles to educate the tribe - a task he sees as the only unifying link between the two factions - but his plans for the future raise issues which will determine both his own and the Gikuyu's survival.

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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