DREAMS IN A TIME OF WAR(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　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.