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A Grain Of Wheat
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1967
- Pages
- Pages 240
"Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone." Kihika underlined those words in his Bible before the British hanged him, and now, in the village of Thabai, in the days before Kenya's independence, the people want two things: the name of whoever betrayed him, and a hero to stand up at the Uhuru celebration. They have chosen Mugo, a silent man who lives alone and once took a beating in the trenches for a pregnant woman.
I die for you, you die for me, we become a sacrifice for one another.
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