Ngugi Wa Thiongo was at the Harvard Book Store the other day to read from his latest novel, The Wizard of the Crow.
A genial man with a wide smile, he surprised me by stating that his current novel is located in Chennai, India, among other places...Later,during the book siging I asked him about the Chennai connection, and he rattled off all the places he knew in Chennai (Marina Beach, St Marks ?) etc) and then said "But I've never been to Chennai...I've been in Hyderabad, though..."
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