A Grain of Wheat

  • A Grain of Wheat
    A Grain of Wheat
    By Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

    Set in 1963, A Grain of Wheat tells the story of Kenya on the verge of Uhuru - its independence day. The novel focuses on Mugo, a man affected by his childhood, the years in the State of Emergency and his own demons within.

  • A Grain of Wheat
    A Grain of Wheat
    By Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    A Grain of Wheat

  • A Grain of Wheat
    A Grain of Wheat
    By Joseph Jacobson

    It's true that I get to hear a passage from one of the Gospels every Sunday in church, but wouldn't it be grand to ... a page or two and comment on the metamorphosis of my cousin from a playful little girl in pigtails to a young woman ...

  • A Grain of Wheat
    By Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

    A Grain of Wheat

  • A Grain of Wheat
    A Grain of Wheat
    By Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    ... language in A Grain of Wheat is more equivocal, not to point to its inescapable duplicity, but to demonstrate the unavoidable inhumanity of sacrifice. Mugo rightly insists on his human need to live as he chooses, but in the argument of ...