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In the house of the interpreter

In the house of the interpreter

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, Josefina Caball · 2012 · 256 pages

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"From the world-renowned Kenyan novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic, the second volume of his memoirs, spanning 1955-1959, the author's high school years during the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising. In the House of the Interpreter evokes a haunting childhood at the end of British colonial rule in Africa, and the formative experiences of a political dissident"--

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