The latest addition to the Penguin African Writers Series- the great Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o's powerful fictional critique of capitalism.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) was an award-winning novelist,
playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been
translated into more than thirty languages. In addition to Devil on
the Cross, his novels A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood, The River
Between, and Weep Not, Child are available from Penguin
Classics.
Namwali Serpell (introduction) has won the Windham-Campbell Prize,
the Caine Prize for African Writing, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation
Writers' Award. The author of the novels The Old Drift and The
Furrows, she was born in Zambia and now lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where she is a professor of English at Harvard.
One of our century's great novels. Tribune Ngugi is the most celebrated of African novelists. What he offers is nothing less than a new direction for African writing. British Book News
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