Petals of Blood Petals of Blood
Livre n° 1 - Penguin African Writers Series

Petals of Blood

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Description de l’éditeur

“The definitive African book of the twentieth century (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer

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.

GENRE
Romans et littérature
SORTIE
1978
25 septembre
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
432
Pages
ÉDITIONS
Penguin Publishing Group
TAILLE
1,4
Mo

Avis d’utilisateurs

Gleb Zubov ,

Voyage au Kenya autant riche que troublant

Ce livre fut pour moi la découverte de la littérature africaine. A travers un récit à travers ses 4 personnages l’auteur nous fait découvrir le Kenya après l’indépendance avec toute la misère et la quête identitaire mais aussi l’espoir d’un avenir pour le continent africain. Belle découverte

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