A Christmas Carol in Swahili (Wimbo wa Krismasi kwa Kiswahili)

Description

A Christmas Carol in Swahili: Charles Dickens’s story of Ebenezer Scrooge and the spirits of Christmas.

Original author: Charles Dickens. Original title: A Christmas Carol. Translated into Swahili from the English original.

Ebenezer Scrooge ndiye mtu bahili kuliko wote jijini London. Usiku wa Mkesha wa Krismasi, mshirika wake wa zamani Jacob Marley (aliyekufa miaka saba iliyopita) anaingia chumbani mwake akiburuta mnyororo alioufua mwenyewe maishani, akiwa na onyo moja: roho watatu watakutembelea.

Wanayomwonyesha roho hao watatu (Krismasi zilizopita, Krismasi ya sasa, na ile ijayo) yanamvunja kabisa, kisha yanamjenga upya, kabla kulipambazuka.

“Na kwa hiyo, kama Tim Mdogo alivyosema, Mungu Atubariki, Kila Mmoja Wetu!”

Tafsiri mpya kwa Kiswahili. Beti zote tano zimo hapa kamili.

Charles Dickens alikiita kitabu hiki “wimbo wa Krismasi kwa nathari”, na akakigawa katika sehemu tano alizoziita “staves”: beti za wimbo. Kwa hiyo hapa sehemu hizo zinaitwa “Ubeti wa Kwanza” hadi “Ubeti wa Tano”.

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #46. Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 112 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover: John Leech, Scrooge’s Third Visitor, plate in the first edition of A Christmas Carol (1843).