Description
| Product ID: | 9781784702243 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Wrestling with the Devil |
| Subtitle: | A Prison Memoir |
| Authors: | Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Kenya, c 1970 to c 1980 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya’s Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There, Ngugi lives in a block alongside other political prisoners, but he refuses to give in to the humiliation. He decides to write a novel in secret, on toilet paper – it is a book that will become his classic, Devil on the Cross. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-04-05 |