About the book: 1981 / A new work by the largest Kenyan prose writer, familiar to Soviet readers with his novels “Don’t Cry, Child,” “A Grain of Wheat” and many stories and essays, has external signs of the detective genre. However, for Ngugi this is nothing more than a device for depicting the modern reality of an African country after it won political independence. The heroes of the novel - peasants, workers, intellectuals - are looking for their truth in the conditions of acute social conflicts characteristic of many countries of the continent.