Ngugi (James) Weep Not, Child
£1,250
London, Heinemann, 1964.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Set during the Mau Mau Uprising of the 1950s, the novel centres on the interactions between British colonists in Kenya and the Kikuyu people, following a young boy’s coming of age against the backdrop of the struggle for independence. James Ngugi (born 1938) later adopted the name Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and became the pre-eminent East African novelist of his generation; Weep Not, Child was the first major English novel published by an East African, and the first to deal with the Mau Mau guerrilla war from an African point of view. It was published in the Heinemann African Writers Series, which was launched with Chinua Achebe as its first advisory editor.
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A near fine copy, in very good jacket with some very minor rubbing to extremities.
Jacket design by Brian Russell.
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