Wizard of the crow

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo

Wizard of the crow - New York Pantheon Books 2006 - 768 p. ; 25 cm.

Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for the souls of the Aburirian people, between a megalomaniac dictator and an unemployed young man who embraces the mantle of a magician. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, in this magnificent work of magical realism, Ngugi wa'Thiong'o?one of the most widely read African writers?reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity.

9781784873356


Power (Social sciences)--Fiction.

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