Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Abdulrazak Gurnah
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A novel that portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. It features a reticent Mugo, the village’s chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret.
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