Wrestling with the Devil

<p>Ngugi wa Thiong&#146;o&#146;s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier he recalls armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya&#146;s Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There Ngugi lives in a block alongside other political prisoners but he refuses to give in to the humiliation. He decides to write a novel in secret on toilet paper &#150; it is a book that will become his classic <i>Devil on the Cross</i>.<br><br><i>Wrestling with the Devil</i> is Ngugi&#146;s unforgettable account of the drama and challenges of living under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the pain caused by his isolation from his family but also the spirit of defiance and the imaginative endeavours that allowed him to survive.</p>