by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo · tapa dura · ISBN 9781846550348
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«Wizard of the Crow» is the comic novel by Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, published by Harvill Secker in hardback (784 pages, in English).
The action of Wizard of the Crow takes place in an imaginary African republic, where an authoritarian ruler, the Christian Ministry, the Global Bank and the enigmatic Wizard, a figure of local folklore, vie for control of the population. The novel, with corrosive humour and echoes of African oral narrative, portrays the powerful and ordinary people in all their human complexity.
The first edition of Wizard of the Crow was published on 23 March 2006.
For readers interested in postcolonial African literature and political satire.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as East Africa's leading novelist and an important figure in modern African literature.
