{"product_id":"wrestling-with-the-devil-a-prison-memoir","title":"Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eNgugi Wa Thiong'o\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781620973332\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe New Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling testament to the human spirit.\u003cbr\u003e--Ariel Dorfman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWrestling with the Devil\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful testament to the courage of Ngũgĩ and his fellow prisoners and validation of the hope that an independent Kenya would eventually emerge.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Ngũgĩ of \u003ci\u003eWrestling with the Devil\u003c\/i\u003e called not just for adding a bit of color to the canon's sagging shelf, but for abolition and upheaval.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWrestling with the Devil\u003c\/em\u003e, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ngũgĩ--the world-renowned author of \u003cem\u003eWeep Not, Child\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003ePetals of Blood\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eWizard of the Crow\u003c\/em\u003e--decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, \u003cem\u003eDevil on the Cross\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in the early 1980s and never before published in America, \u003cem\u003eWrestling with the Devil\u003c\/em\u003e is Ngũgĩ's account of the drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The New Press","offers":[{"title":"Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir | Ngugi Wa Thiong'o | Regular hardback | 9781620973332 | New | Memoir 1332644","offer_id":50550606561538,"sku":"1332644","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51ahFGSNSiL.jpg?v=1790470081","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/wrestling-with-the-devil-a-prison-memoir","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}