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Petals of Blood

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Petals of Blood

â€œThe definitive African book of the twentieth centuryâ€ (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prizeâ€“nominated Kenyan writer

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 BloodÂ 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.

Country	USA
Brand	PENGUIN CLASICOS
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9780143039174
Color	Multicolor
IsAdultProduct
Height	7.71652
Length	5.1181
Weight	0.72532084198
Width	0.90551
ReleaseDate	2005-02-22
NumberOfItems	1

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