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Red Strangers

Elspeth Huxley

Fiction

An epic novel spanning four generations of a Kikuyu family in Kenya, told from inside their worldview so that the arriving British appear as the alien intruders. Richard Dawkins calls it a neglected masterpiece and has championed it as undeservedly overlooked, even helping bring it back into print.

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  • Richard Dawkins
    “A novel of Steinbeckian stature neglected by literary connoisseurs.”

    One of Dawkins's five favorite books as told to The Week; he has repeatedly promoted this once out-of-print novel.

    theweek.com