Devil on the Cross
Title | Devil on the Cross PDF eBook |
Author | Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | Heinemann |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | African fiction (English) |
ISBN | 9780435908447 |
Devil on the Cross tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who emigrated from her small rural town to the city of Nairobi only to be exploited by her boss and later a corrupt businessman.
Wrestling with the Devil
Title | Wrestling with the Devil PDF eBook |
Author | Ngugi wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | The New Press |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2018-03-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1620973340 |
A New York Times Editors’ Choice "A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling testament to the human spirit." —Ariel Dorfman, The New York Times Book Review "Wrestling with the Devil is a powerful testament to the courage of Ngũgĩ and his fellow prisoners and validation of the hope that an independent Kenya would eventually emerge." —Minneapolis Star Tribune "The Ngũgĩ of Wrestling with the Devil called not just for adding a bit of color to the canon’s sagging shelf, but for abolition and upheaval." —Bookforum An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population. In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ngũgĩ—the world-renowned author of Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; and Wizard of the Crow—decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, Devil on the Cross. Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, Wrestling with the Devil is Ngũgĩ's account of the drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately, Wrestling with the Devil is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art.
Deal with the Devil
Title | Deal with the Devil PDF eBook |
Author | Kit Rocha |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2020-07-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250209358 |
Deal with the Devil is Orphan Black meets the post-apocalyptic Avengers by USA Today and New York Times bestselling author duo Kit Rocha. Nina is an information broker with a mission—she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America. Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he's fighting to survive. They’re on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between them only makes it more dangerous. They could burn down the world, destroying each other in the process... Or they could do the impossible: team up. This is the first book in a near-future science fiction series with elements of romance. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
In the House of the Interpreter
Title | In the House of the Interpreter PDF eBook |
Author | Ngugi Wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307907694 |
The second volume of memoirs from the renowned Kenyan novelist, poet and playwright covers his high school years at the end of British colonial rule in Africa, during the Mau Mau Uprising. 15,000 first printing.
Devil in the Mountain
Title | Devil in the Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Lamb |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Andes |
ISBN | 9780691115962 |
Scientist Simon Lamb recounts his efforts to uncover the origins of the Andes Mountains, discussing what he and his team of geologists have learned about the mountains during their explorations of the region.
Devil in a Blue Dress
Title | Devil in a Blue Dress PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Mosley |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | African American men |
ISBN | 9780393028546 |
Private detective Easy Rawlins looks for a gangster's girlfriend in 1940s L.A.
Devil on the Run!
Title | Devil on the Run! PDF eBook |
Author | Nicky Cruz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Evangelistic work |
ISBN | 9780860658139 |
Nicky's parents were both occultists, and he was expected to follow in their footsteps. But Nicky ran away, to New York City, where he became a tough, violent gang leader. Yet he was the first of his family to turn to Christ ...