# Weep Not, Child

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- Book: [Weep Not, Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/ngugi-wa-thiong-o/weep-not-child) ([Weep Not, Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ngugi-wa-thiong-o/weep-not-child.md))
- Authors: [Ngugi wa Thiong'o](https://www.bookquiver.com/ngugi-wa-thiong-o)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4310-669-2
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2012-06-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s powerful first novel Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while...