TY - ABST T1 - Petals of Blood Y1 - 1977 A1 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (b. 1938) KW - Kenyan author KW - Male author AB -

Complex novel depicting, among other things, a post-independence African dystopia and various people with utopian aspirations. Includes the idea that an African utopia will need to be found in the African past.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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