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With black-and-white pictures throughoutWorld-famous Kenyan author, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ng˜ug˜ý california Thiong’o provides us the 2nd amount of his memoirs in the wake of his critically-acclaimed Desires in a Period of War. In the Home of the Translator richly and poignantly evokes the author’s living and situations at boarding school—the first supplementary academic establishment in British-dominated Kenya—in the 1950s, from the background of the tumultuous Mau Mau Rebellion for self-reliance and Kenyan sovereignty. While Ng˜ug˜ý has been experiencing scouting excursions, chess competitions, and reading concerning the imaginary RAF pilot adventurer Biggles at the exclusive Alliance Senior School near Nairobi, things have been changing quickly at house. Set as he's between two sides, Ng˜ug˜ý returns home for his first visit since beginning college to locate his house razed and the whole town shifted up the street, nearer to a guard gate. Later, his sibling Great Wallace, an associate of the insurgency, is seized by the British and taken fully to a concentration camp.