Red Strangers ISBN=9780141188508
作者: Elspeth
出版社:Penguin 2006年05月
简介:
Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, thebrothers Matu and Muthegi are raised according to customs that,they are told, have existed since the beginning of the world. Butwhen the ‘red’ strangers come, sunburned Europeans who seek tocolonize their homeland, the lives of the two Kikuyu tribesmenbegin to change in dramatic new ways. Soon, their people areoverwhelmed by unknown diseases that traditional magic seemspowerless to control. And as the strangers move across the land,the tribe rapidly finds itself forced to obey foreign laws thatseem at best bizarre, and that at worst entirely contradict theKikuyu’s own ancient ways, rituals and beliefs.