A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia
Owens says "tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of
a continent" Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received
glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New
Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he
has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is
annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his
books have sold tens of thousands of copies around the world. In
his first attempt at the epic form, Ngugi tells the story of the
founding of the Gikuyu people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist
perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology,
adventure, and allegory, The Perfect Nine chronicles the efforts
the Gikuyu founders make to find partners for their ten beautiful
daughters--called "The Perfect Nine" --and the challenges they set
for the 99 suitors who seek their hands in marriage. The epic has
all the elements of adventure, with suspense, danger, humor, and
sacrifice. Ngugi's epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of
living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples.
He notes, "The epic came to me one night as a revelation of ideals
of quest, courage, perseverance, unity, family; and the sense of
the divine, in human struggles with nature and nurture."
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