A Grain of Wheat Condition:Very Good Introduced by Margaret Atwood

Introduced by Margaret Atwood

The brief note worries him and pulls him back to Prague

after a terrible earthquake

the magnificent ending to The Chronicles of Narnia

and how to infuse life with beauty while acknowledging its transience

A Grain of Wheat Condition:Very Good Introduced by Margaret AtwoodSet 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 histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real life leaders,