Kiss, Commander, Promise
Kuhusu kitabu hiki cha kusikiliza
‘Alexander Nderitu’s writing flows effortlessly from genre to genre.’– Mwikali Lati, Business Daily
Ten short stories by Alexander Nderitu:
In Kenya, an Egyptian defector becomes the focal point of an African Cold War - but is he a player or a pawn in the international game of political chess?
In North Korea, a disillusioned spy plays a cat-and-mouse game against his own secret service.
In Canada, a successful businesswoman must outwit a stalker who has come a little too close for comfort.
In Israel, a secret plan to bio-engineer an army of cloned soldiers creates ʹthe perfect storm’ of controversy.
Back in Nairobi, an investigator is called in after an Indian family’s wedding plans turn into funeral arrangements.
Elsewhere in Kenya, ripples of alarm begin to spread when a soon-to-be-crowned Nobel laureate goes missing, believed kidnapped.
Meanwhile, a love triangle between a high-strung cop, a naïve writer and a beautiful girl spirals dangerously out of control.
And finally, the Rwandan Genocide is revisited in a heart-rending tale of courage, sacrifice, hatred and fear.
‘Alexander Nderitu is the face of digital publishing in the country.’– The Nairobian
Ukadiriaji na maoni
Kuhusu mwandishi
Alexander Nderitu is a Kenyan poet, novelist, playwright and critic. In 2001, he published his first novel, When the Whirlwind Passes, online. It is regarded as Africa’s first purely ‘digital novel’. He has since published three more books: The Moon is Made of Green Cheese (2008), Kiss Commander Promise (2021), and The Talking of Trees (2021).
Nderitu’s short stories, articles and poems have been published in The East African Standard, Publishing Perspectives, Hjänstorm, Ars Artium, IFLAC Peace and Anti-Terror Anthology, Commonwealth Poetry Postcards, My Africa, My City: An Afridiaspora Anthology, AwaaZ, World Poetry Almanac, One Million Project: Thriller Anthology, AfricanWriter.com, Agbowó, SETU and IHRAF Publishes, among other journals and publications. Some of his writings have been translated into Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Swedish, French, Dholuo, and Kiswahili.
In 2014, his narrative poem 'Someone in Africa Loves You' represented Kenyan literature on Commonwealth Postcards distributed during the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2017, Business Daily newspaper listed him amongst Kenya's 'Top 40 Under 40 Men'. In 2020, he was a finalist for the Collins Elesiro Literature Prize. In 2021, his play Freedom Corner was a co-winner of the IHRAF Africa Playwriting Competition.
Nderitu is currently the Deputy Secretary-General of Kenyan PEN and a Regional Managing Editor for the global theatre news portal, TheTheatreTimes.com. His official website is www.AlexanderNderitu.com
