| Going Down River Road (African Writers) |  | Author: Meja Mwangi
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,372,137
Media: Paperback
Pages: 215
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0435901761
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780435901769
ASIN: 0435901761
Publication Date: June 1976
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Ben, cashiered as a lieutenant in the army, now works as a building labourer in Nairobi. By the author of "Kill Me Quick" and "Striving for the Wind".
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Karara punch January 27, 2007
reader_77 (NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you like your fiction raw and gasoline-powerful, Going Down River Road is the book for you. Mwangi's prose is like the home-made brew Karara, liquor of choice for the down and out in the unnamed African city that is the book's setting. From the cockroach-infested rooms on Grogan Road where Ben lives with his secretary-prostitute girlfriend Wini and her son Baby, to the ironically titled under-construction 'Development House' where Ben earns his living as a 'hand', and on to the lowlife-ridden Karara Centre on River Road which Ben and his friend Ocholla frequent in search of Karara and prostitutes, Mwangi maps the landscape of urban poverty in the third world. Going Down River Road delivers an experience that is as unforgettable as it is unrelenting. Very highly recommended, especially for lovers of postcolonial fiction.
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