ISBN:
9781620975268
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (242 pages)
Uniform Title:
Kenda Mũiyũru
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1938 - The perfect nine
DDC:
305.8963954
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Notes on The Perfect Nine -- 1 Prologue -- 2 Supplication for Power to the Tongue -- 3 The Perfect Nine -- 4 The Wind and the Ostrich -- 5 Feast Song and Dance -- 6 Gikuyu and Mumbi -- 7 Trials, Falls, and Triumphs -- 8 Mission to the Mountain of the Moon -- 9 The Journey -- 10 The Ogre and the Cure-All Hair -- 11 The Ogre of Endless Darkness -- 12 The Ogre That Fumed Fire and Fury -- 13 The Ogre That Shat Without Stopping -- 14 The Ogres with Bags That Never Filled Up -- 15 The Hyena and the Vulture -- 16 Ogres in White Masks -- 17 The Hair That Cures All Illnesses -- 18 Betrothal -- 19 Adoption and Clan Names -- 20 The First Marriage -- 21 Warigia -- 22 Warigia and the Lion -- 23 Cementing Relations Between In-Laws -- 24 Epilogue: The Will of Gkuyu and Mumbi -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
"A reimagining of an old Gikuyu fable"--
Note:
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