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.Wrestling with the Devil is Ngugi s unforgettable account of the drama and challenges of living under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the pain caused by his isolation from his family, but also the spirit of defiance and the imaginative endeavours that allowed him to survive.
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язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● ISBN 9781473523753 ● издатель Random House ● опубликованный 2018 ● Загружаемые 3 раз ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 5897259 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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