TY - BOOK AU - Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo TI - Wizard of the crow SN - 9781784873356 U1 - 823.914WIZ PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Pantheon Books KW - Power (Social sciences)--Fiction N2 - 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 ER -