Nairobi: East African Publishing House, (1968). First edition - Kenyan author's first novel, now considered a classic depiction of the shattering effect of the Mau Mau Emergency on the social fabric of the Kikikyu people. The story resolves round the involvement in the freedom movement of four young men whose education comes to an abrupt end with the outbreak of the Emergency." A title in the Modern African Library. Glossary. 291 pp.