An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma

A heartbreaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.

"It is more than a superb and tragic novel; it's a historical treasure."-Boston Globe

Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, An Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman attempting to jump from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his prized chickens into the water below to express the severity of such a fall. The woman, Ndali, is stopped her in her tracks.

Bonded by this night on the bridge, Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. But Ndali is from a wealthy family and struggles to imagine a future near a chicken coop. When her family objects to the union because he is uneducated, Chinonso sells most of his possessions to attend a college in Cyprus. But when he arrives he discovers there is no place at the school for him, and that he has been utterly duped by the young Nigerian who has made the arrangements... Penniless, homeless, and furious at a world which continues to relegate him to the sidelines, Chinonso gets further away from his dream, from Ndali and the farm he called home.

Spanning continents, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces, and told by a narrator who has lived for hundreds of years, the novel is a contemporary twist of Homer's Odyssey. Written in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about destiny and determination.

Chigozie Obioma was born in the Nigerian city of Akure. His debut novel, The Fishermen, won the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (Los Angeles Times Book Prizes), and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize 2015, as well as a number of other awards in the United States and the United Kingdom. One of Foreign Policy's 100 Top Global Thinkers for 2015 was Obioma. His work has been adapted for the theater and translated into over 25 languages. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as an assistant professor. An Symphony of Minorities, his second novel, was a Booker Prize finalist in 2019.

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ISBN 13	9780316412391
ISBN 10	0316412392
Title	An Orchestra of Minorities
Author	Chigozie Obioma
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little Brown and Company
Year published	2019-01-08
Number of pages	464
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