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Chronicles From The Land Of The Happiest People On Earth: A Novel

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR * The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York, but it now seems that someone is determined that he not make it there. And neither Dr. Menka nor Duyole knows why, or how close the enemy is, or how powerful. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption. It is a stirring call to arms against the abuse of power from one of our fiercest political activists, who also happens to be a global literary giant.


  • | Author: Wole Soyinka
  • | Publisher: Pantheon
  • | Publication Date: 28-Sep-21
  • | Number of Pages: 464 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 0593320166
  • | ISBN-13: 9780593320167
Author:
Wole Soyinka
Publisher:
Pantheon
Publication Date:
28-Sep-21
Number of pages:
464 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
0593320166
ISBN-13:
9780593320167