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Wizard of the crow

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Pantheon Books 2006Description: 768 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781784873356
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.914WIZ
Summary: 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.
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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.

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