Book review on a grain of wheat
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"A Grain of Wheat, Ngugi's latest novel, is an extremely interesting piece of work because it brings a new theme to African literature--the effects on a people of the changes brought about in themselves by the demands of a bloody and bitter struggle for independence. How fit is one for peace, when one has made revolution one's life?" --Nadine Gordimer, Michigan Quarterly Review Fall 1970, p. 226.
"Ngugi's third novel, A Grain of Wheat (1967), is his most impressive work and one of the most complicated novels written by an African novelist during the last twenty-five years. . . . Structurally, A Grain of Wheat is much more involved than Ngugi's two earlier novels. Ngugi in flashbacks constantly shifts his point of view and his use of the temporal...