The Road to the Country : A Novel

✍ Scribed by Chigozie Obioma

• Book ID: 115172871
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593596999

✦ Synopsis

A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria 's civil war--a story of love, friendship, and personal triumph by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and "the heir to Chinua Achebe" (New York Times)
"A wondrous novel."-- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All Stars , finalist for the National Book Award
"Chigozie Obioma is that rare thing: an original. His world is a mix of the real and the folkloric, and his writing sounds like no one else's."-- The Wall Street Journal
The first images of the vision are grainy --like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man.
Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s,The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt who must...