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Petals of blood

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

4.67

3 ratings

"The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. It is--on the surface--a suspenseful investigation of a triple murder. But as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time"--P. [4] of cover.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Fiction, general
  • Fiction in English
  • Crime, fiction
  • Kenya, fiction
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About the author

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

    born 1938

    3.88

    42 ratings · 58 works

Editions

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    Polirom

    2017

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    Ayrinti Yayinlari

    Oct 17, 2019

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    Vintage

    2018

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    Heinemann Educational

    1977

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Heinemann

1977

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    Penguin Books

    1991

  • Edition cover

    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    September 13, 1991

  • Edition cover

    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    September 13, 1991

  • Edition cover

    Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks

    September 10, 1986

  • Edition cover

    Penguin Books

    2005

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    Heinemann

    1977

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    Penguin Random House

    2018

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    Penguin Publishing Group

    1978

  • Edition cover

    Heinemann

    1986

  • Edition cover

    1st American ed.

    Dutton

    1978

  • Edition cover

    Heinemann

    1986

  • Edition cover

    Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks

    September 10, 1986

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    Africasouth Paperbacks

    1986

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    Penguin Books Ltd

    February 7, 2002

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    New Africa Books

    December 31, 1982

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    1st American ed.

    Dutton

    1978