Petals of Blood
by WA THIONG'O, Ngugi
First
Price: $125.00
- Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 72892
- Edition: First
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: E.P. Dutton
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1978
Book Description
New York: E.P. Dutton. 1978. First. First American edition, paperback issue. Page edges spotted, else fine in very good wrappers with the front wrap creased and the crown of the spine smudged. Inscribed by the author on the front fly. This is the last novel written in English by Ngugi, a Kenyan novelist, playwright and teacher, who started writing in Gikuyu, his native tongue, after his arrest for political dissent; his Caitaani Mutharabaini [Devil on the Cross] was the first modern novel written in Gikuyu. .
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