Title Dreams in a time of war : a childhood memoir / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

Publication Info.	New York : Pantheon Books, [2010]
	©2010

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PR9381.9.N45 Z469 2010	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary	Recounts the story of the author's childhood, covering his early years in World War II-era Kenya as the fifth child of a third wife, his thirst for learning that singled him out, and the political struggles that shaped his life.
Subject	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- -- Childhood and youth.
	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-
	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- -- Family.
	Families.
	Authors, Kenyan -- 20th century -- Biography.
	Authors, Kenyan.
Chronological Term	20th century
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Kikuyu (African people) -- Biography.
	Kikuyu (African people)
	Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 -- Biography.
	Kenya.
	History.
Chronological Term	1895-1963
Subject	World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Kenyan.
	World War (1939-1945)
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Kenya.
	Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 -- Personal narratives, Kenyan.
	Kenya -- Colonial influence.
	Colonial influence.
	Kenya -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Social conditions.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographies.
	Personal narratives.
	Personal narratives.
ISBN	9780307378835
	0307378837