Upcoming on my Dr. Kaung's Bookshelf --

at Space 710 in Silver Spring, MD.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The Wizard of the Crow --

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Currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Univ. of CA, Irvine, Kenyan born writer Ngugu wa Thiong'o has written this beautiful story in a magical realist style, set in the fictitious country of Aburiria, called The Wizard of the Crow.

The wizard becomes a wizard by accident, after a near death episode. He is then propelled into the surreal politics of his country. As similarly surreal events unfolded in my native Burma this summer, Wizard of the Crow turned out to be the perfect fictional mirror for me to read.

Join me for a discussion of this book in which mirrors also play a healing role.

Date and time to be announced.

Nov. 2, I will discuss Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation, about a child soldier, in an un-named African country.

7.10 PM to 8.30 PM 963 Bonifant St., Silver Spring, MD.