A Grain of Wheat - James Ngugi 1968 Heinemann vintage PB Anthony Boucher collectively entitled The Human Comedy

collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine)

begin to go awry

neither in autumn nor in winter

Blurb:   The definitive

but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known

A Grain of Wheat - James Ngugi 1968 Heinemann vintage PB Anthony Boucher collectively entitled The Human ComedyCondition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and use. See images for the condition of this book. Blurb: Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 19521960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled