RIVER BETWEEN
Author(s): THIONG'O NGUGI WA
Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river. The people are torn between those who believe in Western/Christian education and the opportunities it will offer, and those who feel that only unquestioned loyalty to past traditions will save them. The growing conflict brings tragedy to a pair of young lovers who attempted to bridge the deepening chasm.
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'It has rare qualities of restraint, intelligence and sensitivity'The Times Literary Suppliment ' A sensitive novel about Gikuyu in the melting pot that sometimes touches the granduer of tap-root simpliticity.'The Guardian
General Fields
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- : Pearson Education, Oxford
- : UNKNOWN
- : 0.14
- : 30 January 1989
- : 198mm X 129mm X 10mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : THIONG'O NGUGI WA
- : Paperback
- : 160