In Heart Lamp, women also bear the brunt of the peculiar obsessions of men who want their desires fulfilled without giving much thought to the women, as it happens in ‘High-Heeled Shoe’, ‘The Arabic Teacher and Gobi Manchuri’
At birth, he was named James Thiong’o Ngugi. He was born in 1938 into a family of goatherds, which included four wives and 28 children