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Petals of Blood

von Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

Fiction Mystery Political African Literature

ISBN

0435901885

Verlag

Heinemann Educational Publishers

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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African literature Kenyan fiction political thriller murder mystery postcolonial themes social critique disillusionment third-world struggles government corruption historical fiction 1970s setting literary fiction suspense human rights activism Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo cultural identity societal issues protest literature international attention imprisonment narrative complexity character-driven modern Africa foreign influence economic exploitation colonial legacy African authors social justice.

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The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya. Yet as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time. First published in 1977, this novel was so explosive that its author was imprisoned without charges by the Kenyan government. His incarceration was so shocking that newspapers around the world called attention to the case, and protests were raised by human- rights groups, scholars, and writers, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme, Harold Pinter, and Margaret Drabble.