Format:
1 online resource (242 pages)
ISBN:
9781620975268
Uniform Title:
Kenda Mũiyũru
Content:
Intro -- Notes on The Perfect Nine -- 1 Prologue -- 2 Supplication for Power to the Tongue -- 3 The Perfect Nine -- 4 The Wind and the Ostrich -- 5 Feast Song and Dance -- 6 Gikuyu and Mumbi -- 7 Trials, Falls, and Triumphs -- 8 Mission to the Mountain of the Moon -- 9 The Journey -- 10 The Ogre and the Cure-All Hair -- 11 The Ogre of Endless Darkness -- 12 The Ogre That Fumed Fire and Fury -- 13 The Ogre That Shat Without Stopping -- 14 The Ogres with Bags That Never Filled Up -- 15 The Hyena and the Vulture -- 16 Ogres in White Masks -- 17 The Hair That Cures All Illnesses -- 18 Betrothal -- 19 Adoption and Clan Names -- 20 The First Marriage -- 21 Warigia -- 22 Warigia and the Lion -- 23 Cementing Relations Between In-Laws -- 24 Epilogue: The Will of Gkuyu and Mumbi -- Acknowledgments.
Content:
"A reimagining of an old Gikuyu fable"--
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1938 - The perfect nine New York : The New Press, 2020 ISBN 9781620975251
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781911215998
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Author information:
Ngugi wa Thiong'o 1938-
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