The perfect nine

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

Original title: Perfect Nine

earliest edition we have, 2018 East African Educational Publishers Limited, 2018 136 pages

A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says "tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent" Ngigu wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the...

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Editions we hold

Perfect Nine edition · 2023 · Penguin Random House · 9781784706784
Perfect Nine edition · 2020 · New Press · 9781620975251
The perfect nine edition · 2020 · The New Press · 227 pages · 9781620975268
The Perfect Nine audiobook · 2020 · Brilliance Audio · 9781713556107
Perfect Nine edition · 2020 · Penguin Random House · 112 pages · 9781911215998
Perfect Nine edition · 2020 · Penguin Random House · 9781473548930
Kenda mũiyũrũ edition · 2018 · East African Educational Publishers Limited · 136 pages · 9789966563828

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