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"En Sueños en tiempos de guerra, Ngũgĩ dibuja hábilmente una era pasada, capturando el paisaje, la gente y la cultura. Narrado desde los ojos de un niño y al mismo tiempo la inteligencia de una vida dedicada, entre otras cosas, al estudio y la defensa de las culturas minorizadas, el libro evidencia la vicisitudes sociales y políticas de la vida colonial y la guerra. El autor nos acerca a su experiencia a través del relato sobre la complicada relación entre una clase cristianizada emergente y la clase pobre rural que mantiene sus creencias tradicionales o la guerra por la independencia."
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Sueños en tiempos de guerra: Memorias de infancia
Oct 17, 2016, Rayo Verde Editorial
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in Spanish
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Dreams in a time of war: a childhood memoir
2011, Anchor Books
in English
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Dreams in a time of war: a childhood memoir
2010, Pantheon Books
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Source title: Sueños en tiempos de guerra: Memorias de infancia (Ciclogénesis) (Spanish Edition)
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By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood.Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa's leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affected the lives of Africans under British colonial rule in particularly unexpected ways, Ngugi spent his childhood as very much the apple of his mother's eye before attending school to slake what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning.In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngugi deftly etches a bygone era, capturing the landscape, the people, and their culture; the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war; and the troubled relationship between an emerging Christianized middle class and the rural poor. And he shows how the Mau Mau armed struggle for Kenya's independence against the British informed not only his own life but also the lives of those closest to him.Dreams in a Time of War speaks to the human right to dream even in the worst of times. It abounds in delicate and powerful subtleties and complexities that are movingly told.From the Hardcover edition.
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