Wizard of the Crow - Softcover

Thiong, Ngugi W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846550297 ISBN 13: 9781846550294

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 2006

Synopsis

With images of dictatorship inspired by Kenya's struggle, but set in the fictitious Free Republic of Aburiria, Ngg's novel dramatizes the battle for control of the souls of the Aburirian people with a keen eye and corrosive humour. Translated from Gky by the author. Off-mint.

About this title

Review:

"Unreservedly a masterpiece" (Scotland on Sunday)

"A huge, comic novel... A shimmering, shifting discourse... mythological but also cheerfully disenchanted; political and playful; cartoonish but also epical... the African novel may well have delivered its greatest masterpiece" (Brian Morton Sunday Herald)

"Epic....daring satire" (Sunday Times)

"Fantastic" (John Updike)

"Truly exciting... the author is a master of farce" (Daily Telegraph)

From the Publisher:

A magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African Literature from the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic

About this edition

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1846550297
• ISBN 13: 9781846550294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 784