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Title	:	A Grain of Wheat
Author	:	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 247 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1994 by Heinemann Educational Books (first published 1967)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Eastern Africa. Kenya. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. African Literature. Classics

A Grain of Wheat

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Paperback | Pages: 247 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 3864 Users | 257 Reviews

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Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.

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Original Title:	A Grain of Wheat
ISBN:	0435909878 (ISBN13: 9780435909871)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	East Africa

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Ratings: 3.83 From 3864 Users | 257 Reviews

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I think my rating is more of a 4.5!This really surprised me! I was slightly confused at the beginning of the novel, but I grew so invested in these characters and their stories. Such a powerful, political and complex historical novel. It jumps from the present (1963 - Independence day in Kenya) to the characters' pasts and we see how their lives are interwoven and connected. The characters are complex and feel real.



It took me a while to digest this book after I finished reading it because like many others have mentioned it contains many interwoven stories and the novel uses a lot of flashback. Also, I was just not quite sure what the grain of wheat, whose produce could not be predicted at the time of planting, was exactly. I finally decided that it was the State of the Emergency. With that the novel portrays the different effects that the State of Emergency in Kenya from 1952-1959, had on different people

A grain of wheat is a multi layered story of sacrifice, rebellion, friendship, betrayal and love. A story of land dispossession, the Mau Mau, and Kenyan independence. Through this novel and many others, Ngugi WaThiongo has managed to shade light into Kenya's history, social processes and issues. Not as a historian or political scientist but as a creative writer. We must never forget that literature played a key role in history, sanitising slavery and colonialism. Thus, as victims of these twin

This is an absolutely brilliant piece of literature describing life in a Kenyan village in the aftermath of the war with Britain in the 1960s, where each villager has their own secret about their actions during the violence, slowly tearing everyone apart. Despite the grim premise, I really enjoyed reading this and got a insight into the life of people in a very different world.Will make you want to go to Kenya..

A story of Kenyan independence and the toll the preceding struggle took on people.Well, this is embarrassing--I don't know what to rate this. Based on the first couple pages I'd pegged it as a slog, and not expecting to enjoy it but feeling I should read it anyway for my world fiction challenge, read nearly half the book in a crowded place with divided attention. Turns out this is a complex story with a lot of names (many of them similar), a lot of jumping back and forth between past and

An impressive novel that takes a bit of concentration to figure out the various characters and changes in the time of the event. The story of the years leading up to Kenya's independence is told through a set of characters who represent the oppressor, the freedom fighter, the unwitting hero, and those who were traitors. The author showed the impact of the fight for independence on all of these characters and also of the communities they lived in. Written in only three years after independence,