The River Between
$27.15
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
21 October 2015
Summary
A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee.
A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. The River Between explores life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143107491 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143107496 |
| Author: | Uzodinma Iweala, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 21 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 130mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin African Writers Series |
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Critics Review
“One of the greatest writers of our time.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Guardian
“His novels … have been deservedly canonized by the iconic [Penguin Classics] series.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Beautifully compact … It takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the simplifying template of colonialism… . It has an undeniable power.” —Uzodinma Iweala, from the Introduction
“It has the rare qualities of restraint, intelligence and sensitivity.” —The Times Literary Supplement
“A sensitive novel about the Gikuyu in the melting pot that sometimes touches the grandeur of tap-root simplicity.” —The Guardian
About The Author
Uzodinma Iweala
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025) was an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. In addition to The River Between, his novels Devil on the Cross, A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood, and Weep Not, Child are available from Penguin Classics.
Uzodinma Iweala (introduction) is the author of the award-winning novel Beasts of No Nation and is one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria, and New York City.
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