For Jonatan Silva, reviewing the book for A Escotilha, A Grain of Wheat is an important portrait of Kenya struggle for independence. "He made a game of mirrors in this novel", wrote Silva.[3]
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• Harry Thuku is seen encouraging people to ask Pharaoh to let his people go (12).
• Mumbi compares herself to Esther from the Bible (75).
One recurring theme or motif is that of rain. It is often drizzly or raining in the novel. This rain is sometimes purifying, sometimes harmful and an omen of gloom and subversion of promise and hope. It is rainy the night before and the day of...
Thompson visited Africa during WWII, after which he went to Oxford before returning to Africa.
