Wole Soyinka

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

A Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, combining "elements of a murder mystery, a searing political satire and an Alice in Wonderland-like modern allegory of power and deceit" (Los Angeles Times).   In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York, but it now seems that someone is determined that he not make it there. And neither Dr. Menka nor Duyole knows why, or how close the enemy is, or how powerful.   Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption. It is a stirring call to arms against the abuse of power from one of our fiercest political activists, who also happens to be a global literary giant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1900
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 155mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780593316436
• ISBN-10: 0593316436
• Artikelnr.: 61331265

Autorenporträt

Wole Soyinka

Rezensionen

Is this a good place to confess my crush, an overly bashful crush, on this politically courageous literary stylist … I look to Soyinka's life, not so much the choices he has made but the courage it took to make them, as a source of light