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Petals of Blood

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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Literature: history, themes, analysis Caribbean and African Literature and Culture

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Ranging back and forth between satire, metaphor and stark realism, Ngugi unfolds a tangible landscape both beautiful and horrfying, as tribalism and village life are manipulated in the name of progress by the cynical bureaucrats.

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