Wrestling with the Devil

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<p>Ngugi wa Thiongos powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenyas Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There, Ngugi lives in a block alongside other political prisoners, but he refuses to give in to the humiliation. He decides to write a novel in secret, on toilet paper it is a book that will become his classic,<i>Devil on the Cross</i>.</p><p><i>Wrestling with the Devil</i>is Ngugis unforgettable account of the drama and challenges of living under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the pain caused by his isolation from his family, but also the spirit of defiance and the imaginative endeavours that allowed him to survive.</p>

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<b>Ngugi wa Thiongo</b>is one of the leading writers and scholars at work in the world today. His books include the novels<i>Petals of Blood</i>, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977,<i>A Grain of Wheat</i>and<i>Wizard of the Crow;</i>the memoirs,<i>Dreams in a Time of War</i>,<i>In the House of the Interpreter</i>and<i>Birth of a Dream Weaver;</i>and the essays,<i>Decolonizing the Mind</i>,<i>Something Torn and New</i>and<i>Globalectics.</i>Recipient of many honours, among them ten honorary doctorates, he is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

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