Devil on the Cross
- ISBN-10
- 0435908448
- ISBN-13
- 9780435908447
- Category
- African fiction (English)
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Authors
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Description
This remarkable and symbolic novel centers on Wariinga's tragedy and uses it to tell a story of contemporary Kenya.
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