The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's powerful first novel Two brothers Njoroge and Kamau
stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school while Kamau
will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya and the times are against them: In the forests
the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government and the two brothers and their family
need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau the choice is simple but
for Njoroge the scholar the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up. The
first East African novel published in English Weep Not Child explores the effects of the
infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women and on one family in
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