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Secret Lives & Other Stories
Secret Lives & Other Stories | Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer. First published in 1975, Secret Lives and Other Stories brings together a range of Ngugi's political short stories. From tales of the meeting between magic and superstition, to stories about the modernising forces of colonialism, and the pervasive threat of nature, this collection celebrates the storytelling might of one of Africa's best-loved writers.
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This was another read for my Non-Western Civ Lit class...and it broke my heart. Post-colonial stories are hard for me to read because they‘re so frustrating, but these stories are so haunting, so well-done, that you can‘t look away, even if you want to.