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Chronicles From the Land Of the Happiest People On Earth
[Paperback - 2022]
wole soyinka
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Uk | ISBN: 9781526638250 | Pages: 464
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Soyinka s greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book - Ben Okri

A lion of African literature - Financial Times

Chronicles is many things at once: a caustic political satire, a murder mystery, a conspiracy story and a deeply felt lament for the spirit of a nation - Juan Gabriel Vásquez, New York Times

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR

To Doctor Menka s horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already at the end of his tether from the horrors he routinely sees in surgery, he shares this latest development with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne, who has never before met a puzzle he couldn t solve. Neither realise how close the enemy is, nor how powerful.

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a savagely witty whodunit, a scathing indictment of Nigeria s political elite, and a provocative call to arms from one of the country s most relentless political activists and an international literary giant.

A high-jinks state-of-the-nation novel - Chibundu Onuzo

Chronicles is a good model for what the political novel should be: fearless, disdaining formal constraints, sparing no one - Guardian

About the Author

Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934.

Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012.

A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fight against government corruption and oppression worldwide.

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