Authors: Wanjiku wa Ngugi

The Fall of Saints (27 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ngũgĩ wa, Wanjikũ.
The fall of saints : a novel / Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ. First Atria hardcover edition.
pages cm
1. Husband and wife—Fiction. 2. Secrets—Fiction. 3. Adopted
children—Fiction. 4. Families—Fiction. 5. Kenya—Politics and
government—Fiction. I. Title.
PH356.N48F35 2014
894’.54134—dc23 2013044335

ISBN 978-1-4767-1491-2
ISBN 978-1-4767-1493-6 (ebook)

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