<div> <b>A powerful novel by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize contender?the latest in the Penguin African Writers Series</b><br> <br> A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. <i>The River Between</i> explores life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.</div>