ISBN | 9789966465566 |
Pages | 188 |
Dimensions | 203 x 127 mm |
Published | 1991 |
Publisher | East African Educational Publishers, Kenya |
Format | Paperback |
Three Days on the Cross
by Wahome Mutahi
The author, a well-known Kenyan journalist, and a former detainee, sets his novel in an un-named African country ruled by the Illustrious One - a paranoiac despot. When he demands a crackdown on dissidents, the director of the special police must please him with arrests and detentions. Two of the suspects, a bank employee and a newspaper reporter, are denounced to the authorities, and detained. What follows is a story of Kafkaesque horror, following the men through the dungeons and torture chambers hidden in the capital of a nation masquerading as civil society. The novel enjoyed instant bestseller success in Kenya.
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