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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The inspiration for Kubrick's acclaimed 1957 film, this is an epic story of combat and injustice that remains an antiwar masterpiece. Frenchmen during the First World War are ordered to assault a German position deemed all but invulnerable. When the attack fails, an inquiry into allegations of cowardice indicts a handful of lower-ranked scapegoats whose trial exposes a tragic farce.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's powerful fictional critique of capitalism One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's fame, Devil on the Cross was written in secret, on toilet paper, while Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo was in prison. It tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss and later by a corrupt businessman....
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