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Beneath the still waters of the pool, truth and power lies. As it waits, tragedy ripples out in every direction... When Gikere, Selina, and Munene, members of the new elite, return from the town to the village, they each come with their own ambitions.Gikere: the timid hospital assistant, wants to build a clinic.Selina: Gikere's wife, previously a prostitute and model in the town, wants to start a school for toy-making.Munene: a powerful politician, detained during the Mau Mau uprising for stealing hospital money, plots to open a hospital of his own. Money, power, fame; each person has everything to gain and everything to lose. As they race to feed their modern versions of success, the spiritual waters of the pool lie waiting -- and it refuses to be ignored any longer. A powerful and intricately symbolic novel, Ripples in the Pool is a groundbreaking classic from pioneering author, Rebeka Njau.
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Ripples in the Pool, Rebeka Njau
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- Année de publication
- 2024
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- Titre
- Ripples in the Pool
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Rebeka Njau
- Éditeur
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publié
- 2024
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 1035906155
- ISBN13
- 9781035906154
- Séries
- Évaluation
- 4 sur 5
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- Beneath the still waters of the pool, truth and power lies. As it waits, tragedy ripples out in every direction... When Gikere, Selina, and Munene, members of the new elite, return from the town to the village, they each come with their own ambitions.Gikere: the timid hospital assistant, wants to build a clinic.Selina: Gikere's wife, previously a prostitute and model in the town, wants to start a school for toy-making.Munene: a powerful politician, detained during the Mau Mau uprising for stealing hospital money, plots to open a hospital of his own. Money, power, fame; each person has everything to gain and everything to lose. As they race to feed their modern versions of success, the spiritual waters of the pool lie waiting -- and it refuses to be ignored any longer. A powerful and intricately symbolic novel, Ripples in the Pool is a groundbreaking classic from pioneering author, Rebeka Njau.