A Grain of Wheat.
"Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb": Rare First Edition of A Grain of Wheat; Inscribed by Ngugi
A Grain of Wheat.
NGUGI, James.
Item Number: 931
London: Heinemann, 1967.
First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by Ngugi who has also transcribed the last sentence of this title. A very nice copy.
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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