Ngũgı̃ wa Thiong'o,  1938- <br/><br/>
A grain of wheat / 
Ngugi wa Thiong'o. 
 - Rev. ed. /  with a new introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah. 
 - London :  Penguin,  2002. 
 - xiv, 242p. ;  20 cm. 
 - Penguin classics .
<br/><br/> This translation originally published: London: Heinemann, 1967. 
<br/><br/> A Grain of Wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. As events unfold, compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed and loves are tested. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780141186993 (pbk.) :  £7.99 0141186992 (pbk.) :  £7.99 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Kenya--History--Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.9'14