Season of Anomy

✍ Scribed by Wole Soyinka

• Book ID: 100455757
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 932 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593467206

✦ Synopsis

From the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our fiercest political activists --this political novel about the dangers of corruption, greed, and the desire for power is the follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel The Interpreters.
An African nation's struggle for independence is interwoven with a tragic love story in this compelling novel. When Ofeyi, who writes advertising jingles for the Cocoa Corporation, is sent on a promotional tour of his unnamed country, he arrives at a coastal village whose remote location has long kept it insulated from the corrupt national government. Here Ofeyi discovers a traditional way of life that is still flourishing and he is inspired to spread its life-affirming values to his suffering country. But challenging the forces of greed and exploitation provokes a horrific response, and when Ofeyi's beloved wife goes missing, he must travel across a war-scarred landscape in...