stories from the land where grows the sacred Mugumobaum where popular superstition is still alive and bouncing on Christianity, which was brought by the colonial masters in the country. The stories play before the Mau Mau uprising, before the war of independence against British colonial rule, However, after an uprising. "Why do they have to wait for me? And how could I believe that till my return would not change anything, "says Kamau who has just returned from captivity. The Mugumobaum is the most holy people, because it thrives even in severe drought. When the drought but so long is that the holy tree will suffer, then it is a disaster, which has been predicted by weather forecasters and medicine men. . "- Because there are still in our village which, although their influence has diminished" is The Kenya sixty years ago, a country in transition, but Not all traces of magic run dry. Thus, the medical student Mangara, "had been raised with the European religious and educated in a European spirit," pursued by a curse that brings him to death.
When I read about the unspeakably smug snobbery of European settlers, one could not as a houseboy imagine as a father, I think of Doris Lessing's Martha Quest. "Then there's the fighting boys, eliminate their white rule, at this point me of the attack from Coetzee's "Disgrace" in memory. The flies houseboy Njoroge, on the way the selbsterkenntliche Anger at his mistress out of his belly, sweeps must die. The good man as a martyr. We also read of a woman in any village, the children do not get beaten by her husband and therefore despised leaves .... what a shame ... the woman's village.
All this and much more are stories, yes, certainly events that have occurred in Kenya in the twentieth century. Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of the foremost writers of East Africa. These stories are a small taste of the work of this writer. People in the decision threshold of their existence, then their lives will be different or they find death. These stories touch and shape up. I am particularly pleased because Ngugi wa Thiong'o writes very reader-friendly. This year he published his autobiographical work "dreams in times of war" about his childhood, which I will discuss more. I adore now like to have two novels in the little room.
