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Wizard of the Crow
de Ngugi Wa Thiongo
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/good
- ISBN 10
- 037542248X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422485
- Librería
-
Wichita, Kansas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Pantheon, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Dust jacket rubbed at corners, spine, else a clean, solid and bright copy. Stated first edition, full number line. Unclipped DJ protected with Brodart cover. 8vo, 768 pp., bookseller #3817.
Sinopsis
From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic--a magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African literature.In exile now for more than twenty years, Ngugl wa Thiong'o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attention and praise. His aim in Wizard of the Crow is, in his own words,nothing less than "to sum up Africa of the twentieth century in the context of two thousand years of world history."Commencing in "our times" and set in the "Free Republic of Aburlria," the novel dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburlrian people. Among the contenders: His High Mighty Excellency; the eponymous Wizard, an avatar of folklore and wisdom; the corrupt Christian Ministry; and the nefarious Global Bank. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, Wizard of the Crow reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity.Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, Wizard of the Crow is a masterpiece, the crowning achievement in Ngugl wa Thiong'o's career thus far.From the Hardcover edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Thleodore Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 3817
- Título
- Wizard of the Crow
- Autor
- Ngugi Wa Thiongo
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 037542248X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422485
- Editorial
- Pantheon
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Palabras clave
- Gikuyu; MD-5LTJ-3RWV
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
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