书单简介
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi is a Gikuyu book-length prose poem by the Kenyan author and playwright Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, published in 2020. The work is a retelling of the Gikuyu creation myth, using a combination of Homeric verse with oral storytelling techniques such as choruses, chants, songs. It became the first book originally written in an indigenous African language to be longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021, when Ngugi summarized it by saying: "It is a celebration of feminist creative power and glory."
暂无中文简介，这是英文维基百科「The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi」的摘要，CC BY-SA 4.0