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Petals of Blood
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Masterpiece. He shows the slow encroachment of a whole range of forces from capitalism to 'modernity' post-independence in Kenya and does it while implicitly critiquing almost every ideological position that can be taken in such a context.
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Quotes Sara Liked
“This land used to yield. Rains used not to fail. What happened?’ inquired Ruoro. It was Muturi who answered. ‘You forget that in those days the land was not for buying. It was for use. It was also plenty, you need not have beaten one yard over and over again.”
― Petals of Blood
― Petals of Blood
“He carried the Bible; the soldier carried the gun; the administrator and the settler carried the coin. Christianity, Commerce, Civilization: the Bible, the Coin, the Gun: Holy Trinity.”
― Petals of Blood
― Petals of Blood
Reading Progress
March 25, 2015
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Started Reading
March 25, 2015
– Shelved
April 6, 2015
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Finished Reading
