{"product_id":"perfect-nine-the-epic-of-gikuyu-and-mumbi","title":"Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003ePerfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eNgugi Wa Thiong'o\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781620975251\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe New Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says \"tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his first attempt at the epic form, Ngũgĩ tells the story of the founding of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology, adventure, and allegory, \u003cem\u003eThe Perfect Nine\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the efforts the Gĩkũyũ 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNgũgĩ'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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The New Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi | Ngugi Wa Thiong'o | Regular hardback | 9781620975251 | New | Fiction 1332651","offer_id":50550606627074,"sku":"1332651","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41s5SyUSKDL.jpg?v=1790470082","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/perfect-nine-the-epic-of-gikuyu-and-mumbi","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}