A Grain of Wheat

The novel in which Ngũgĩ’s politics hardened, set in the four days before Kenyan independence in December 1963 and moving backwards through the Emergency. Copyright James Ngugi 1967; first published by William Heinemann 1967, in the AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES 1968, REPRINTED 1969 — this copy. SBN 435 90036 6; printed in Malta by St Pauls Press. Dedicated “For Dorothy”. Its structure — several consciousnesses circling one betrayal — is the book usually named when people call him the major novelist of East Africa.