Wole Soyinka

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'Soyinka's greatest novel' Ungekürzte Lesung. 1301 Min.

Sprecher: Obiora, Michael

Beschreibung

Bloomsbury presents Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka, read by Michael Obiora. 'Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' – Ben Okri 'A high-jinks state-of-the-nation novel' – Chibundu Onuzo A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A towering figure in world literature, Wole Soyinka aims directly at the corridors of power as he warns against corruption both of high office and of the soul, with a dazzling lightness of touch and gleeful irreverence. Much to Doctor Menka's horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already at the end of his tether from the horrors he routinely sees in surgery, he shares this latest development with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne, who has never before met a puzzle he couldn't solve. Neither realise how close the enemy is, nor how powerful. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a savagely witty whodunit, a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite, and a provocative call to arms from one of the country's most relentless political activists and an international literary giant. MORE PRAISE FOR WOLE SOYINKA: 'You don't see the things the same when you encounter a voice like that' – Toni Morrison 'One of the best there is today, a poet and a thinker, who knows both how the world works and how the world should work' – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Autor

Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934.Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012.A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fight against government corruption and oppression worldwide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526638205
• Artikelnr.: 70157678

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Is this a good place to confess my crush, an overly bashful crush, on this politically courageous literary stylist … I look to Soyinka's life, not so much the choices he has made but the courage it took to make them, as a source of light