Verdict: carrot
Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir, published in 2012 by Pantheon books follows on from Dreams in A Time of War: A Child hood Memoir. It covers the years at Alliance High School from 1955 to 1959. These are the years of the Mau Mau liberation struggle. A young Ngugi returns to a desolate landscape. All has been torn down and people crammed into a concentration village next to a home guard post. To keep the villagers from the Mau Mau or the Mau Mau from the villagers is the question. Throughout the memoir it is never, clearly, one or the other. Ngugi’s family is repeatedly interrogated about the whereabouts of Good Wallace, Ngugi’s brother and a Mau Mau fighter, and Ngugi lives in a hauntingly described state of fear brought to life by the repeated use of an image of pursuing bloodhounds in a nightmare.
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- In the House of the Interpreter by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
EAN: 978184655628
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