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Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatises with searing humour and piercing observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburirian people. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, Ngugi wa Thiog'o reveals humanity in all its surprising intricacy.
Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, Wizard of the Crow is a masterpiece and a major achievement in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's extraordinary and brave career.
Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, Wizard of the Crow is a masterpiece and a major achievement in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's extraordinary and brave career.
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"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)
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"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)
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
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0099502682
- ISBN 13 9780099502685
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