Matigari

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 1986 CE · Novel · East African · Contemporary

A man walks out of the forest after a war nobody will name, buries his rifle under a tree, girds himself with a belt of peace and goes looking for the house he built and the family he left. Everywhere he asks where in this country a person finds truth and justice, and the asking earns him a cell and a following. Ngugi's second Gikuyu novel, written in exile.

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