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Wizard of the Crow: A novel |
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Ngugi wa'Thiong'o, Ngguggi Wa Thiong'oISBN: 037542248X
Format: Hardcover, 784pp
Pub. Date: August 2006
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
BBP Sales Rank: 55,551
List Price: $30.00 |
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| Wizard of the Crow, Ngugi wa'Thiong'o, 037542248X |
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From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic--a
magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of
postcolonial African literature.
In exile now for more than twenty years, Ngugl wa Thiongo has become one of the
most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work
garnering him international attention and praise. His aim in Wizard of the Crow
is, in his own words,nothing less than "to sum up Africa of the twentieth
century in the context of two thousand years of world history."
Commencing in "our times" and set in the "Free Republic of Aburlria," the novel
dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for
control of the souls of the Aburlrian people. Among the contenders: His High
Mighty Excellency; the eponymous Wizard, an avatar of folklore and wisdom; the
corrupt Christian Ministry; and the nefarious Global Bank. Fashioning the
stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, Wizard of the
Crow reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity.
Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, Wizard of the
Crow is a masterpiece, the crowning achievement in Ngugl wa Thiong"o's career
thus far. |
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