The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma

The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma

FINALIST FOR THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

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

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the New American Voices Award * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe, The Economist, and Kirkus Reviews

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 go to war to free himself. When his younger brother disappears as the country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission. Kunle's search for his brother becomes a journey of atonement that will see him conscripted into the breakaway Biafran army and forced to fight a war he hardly understands, all while navigating the prophecies of a local Seer, he who marks Kunle as an abami eda--one who will die and return to life.

The story of a young man seeking redemption in a country on fire, Chigozie Obioma's novel is an odyssey of brotherhood, love, and unimaginable courage set during one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of Africa. Intertwining myth and realism into a thrilling, inspired, and emotionally powerful novel, The Road to the Country is the masterpiece of Chigozie Obioma, a writer Salman Rushdie calls "a major voice" in literature.

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	9780593596975
Title	The Road to the Country
Author	Chigozie Obioma
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hogarth
Year published	2024-06-04
Number of pages	384
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