Author: wa Thiong'o, Ngugi
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 22 October 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.
Paperback | 352 pages
195 x 127 x 23 | 254g
The great Kenyan writer's influential novel, written in prison, a cornerstone post-colonial novel offering a powerful critique of the 'Satan of capitalism' ‘The Devil appeared to Jacinta Wariinga one Sunday on a golf course’Written secretly while Ngugi wa Thiong’o was in prison, Devil on the Cross is the story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to face injustice and exploitation. As Wariinga struggles to survive, she begins to realize that her problems are only symptoms of a larger malaise. A raging satire on western culture, Ngugi’s enduring work is an impassioned cry for a Kenya free from oppression.
'With Ngugi history is a living tissue' Guardian‘One of our century's great novels’ Tribune