# Petals of Blood

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenya, 1977

The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. It is, on the surface, a suspenseful investigation of a triple murder. But as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time

ISBN: 9786053143864

## See also

- [Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o](https://africantales.net/authors/ngugi-wa-thiong-o)
- [More from Kenya](https://africantales.net/countries/KEN)
- [Political Fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/political-fiction)
- [The 1970s](https://africantales.net/decades/1970s)

Source: https://africantales.net/books/petals-of-blood