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Weep Not, Child

by James Ngugi

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ISBN 10
0435900072
ISBN 13
9780435900076
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London: Heinemann, 1971. 154 pages. Soft cover has some scuffing, rubbing to edges. Former owner's name and price on front free endpaper. Text is unmarked.. Soft Cover. Good-.

Synopsis

Weep Not, Child is Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's first novel, published in 1964. It was the first English novel to be published by an East African. Thiong'o's works deal with the relationship between Africans and the British colonists in Africa, and are heavily critical of British colonial rule. Specifically, Weep Not, Child deals with the Mau Mau Uprising, and "the bewildering dispossession of an entire people from their ancestral land.

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Bookseller
Ghost River Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
206476
Title
Weep Not, Child
Author
James Ngugi
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Good-
ISBN 10
0435900072
ISBN 13
9780435900076
Publisher
Heinemann
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1971

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