The River Between

Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 31 January 1989 by Pearson Education Limited (Heinemann) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Heinemann African Writers Series' series.

Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and 'magical' customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.