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Original Title:	Petals of Blood
ISBN:	0143039172 (ISBN13: 9780143039174)
Edition Language:	English

Petals of Blood

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 1653 Users | 145 Reviews

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The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human-rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.First time in Penguin Classics

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Title	:	Petals of Blood
Author	:	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	February 22nd 2005 by Penguin Classics (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Cultural. Africa. Fiction. Eastern Africa. Kenya. Literature. African Literature

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Ratings: 3.89 From 1653 Users | 145 Reviews

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I expect he'll get the Nobel Prize sooner or later. In this book, what starts (and ends) as a murder mystery becomes a profound look at what happened to Kenya post-independence, and to Kenyan people. This is not an easy read for people expecting a quick mystery with stereotypic characters, but by the time your done, you'll have insight into complex characters not of our culture and what shaped them. Best book I've read in several years, even though it took me a while to get into it - largely

Petals of Blood comes up in discussions about the most important African novels of the 20th century. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (pronunciation - if you want to pick one name, Ngũgĩ is correct) was a disciple of Chinua Achebe's, until they had a violent falling out over philosophy: Ngũgĩ decided to stop writing in English, switching to his native Kenyan language of Gikuyu. African language for African people. Achebe had a broader audience in mind. 1977's Petals of Blood was Ngũgĩ's final English work.It's

A screed against post-colonial indigenous capitalism in Kenya tucked into a character-driven story about personal relationships to power and history. Memory, passion, and perspective bias everyone so the story barely tells itself but instead is formed from the impressions of those living it. Ngugi is one of the great anti-imperialist writers and also a great novelist. This book allows the author a few moments of utopian soapboxing and revolutionary memorializing, but mostly he buries the

The dedication at the start of this book reads 'To The Soviet Writers Union for giving me the use of their house in Yalta in order to finish the writing of this novel' and the writer Ngugi was imprisoned for a year in the 70's for his writing so you know as you start the book that this is not going to be an ordinary murder mystery. In fact that is the starting premise as four individuals are arrested in the mid 70's for the murder by arson of three high ranking wealthy

This is one of the first Ngugi books I read and I have to admit I enjoyed his earlier work about the Mau Mau rebellion more as I was reading it. However, looking back I see the brilliance of Petals of Blood. This work takes incredible courage. I was visiting Kenya when he first came back after decades of exile and he was attacked by thugs. To take on the corrupt post-independence regime and not just create a mythology about the heroes of independence is what makes Ngugi a master. I wish an

3.5 - 4 A book laden with mysteries of the past which need discovering, and several different social aspects which emerged in independent Kenya. The reader explores the primarily rural old Ilmorog as it progresses and develops, and watches how people either eat or are eaten.Rather slow at times but everything fits neatly together in the end, so that the author's message is delivered effectively to the reader. While the African words, phrases and songs put the reader in the right Kenyan

Oh good grief I am DNFing this - I think that is the correct abbreviation here on Goodreads. It's boring, although I am sure very, very educational.