{"product_id":"wrestling-with-the-devil-a-prison-memoir","title":"Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWrestling with the Devil\u003c\/em\u003e, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya’s Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ngũgĩ—the world-renowned author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeep Not, Child\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePetals of Blood\u003c\/em\u003e; and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWizard of the Crow\u003c\/em\u003e—decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDevil on the Cross\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in the early 1980s and never before published in America,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWrestling with the Devil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Ngũgĩ’s account of the drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWrestling with the Devil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51355355873610,"sku":"9781784702243","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/812b6VARqlL._SY522.jpg?v=1753270239","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/wrestling-with-the-devil-a-prison-memoir","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}