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Published: 15 April 2018
ISBN: 9781784873356
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 784
RRP: $32.99

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Wizard of the Crow

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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'Mythological but also cheerfully disenchanted; political and playful; cartoonish but also epical... the African novel may well have delivered its greatest masterpiece' Sunday Herald

Informed by traditional African storytelling, discover Ngugi wa Thiong'o's masterpiece.

To honour the Ruler's birthday, the Free Republic of Aburiria set out to build a tower; a modern wonder of the world that will reach the gates of Heaven. But behind this pillar of unity a battle for control of the Aburirian people rages. Among the contenders: the eponymous Wizard, an avatar of folklore and wisdom; the corrupt Christian Ministry; and the nefarious Global Bank.

'Mythological but also cheerfully disenchanted; political and playful; cartoonish but also epical... the African novel may well have delivered its greatest masterpiece' Sunday Herald

Published: 15 April 2018
ISBN: 9781784873356
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 784
RRP: $32.99

Categories:

About the author

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the leading writers and scholars at work in the world today. His books include the novels Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977, A Grain of Wheat and Wizard of the Crow; the memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War, In the House of the Interpreter and Birth of a Dream Weaver; and the essays, Decolonizing the Mind, Something Torn and New and Globalectics. Recipient of many honours, among them ten honorary doctorates, he is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

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Praise for Wizard of the Crow

Unreservedly a masterpiece
Scotland on Sunday

A huge, comic novel... A shimmering, shifting discourse... mythological but also cheerfully disenchanted; political and playful; cartoonish but also epical... the African novel may well have delivered its greatest masterpiece
Brian Morton, Sunday Herald

Epic....daring satire
Sunday Times

Fantastic
John Updike

Truly exciting... the author is a master of farce
Daily Telegraph

An impish and hallucinatory satire on dictatorship
The Times

Powerfully funny... Aburiria is recognisable as modern Africa in all its splendour, squalor, economic malaise and venality... it is hard not to be cheerd by the spirit of gentle resistance that is at its core, in defiance of everyday greed
The Economist

Truthful in its dissection of power, and remarkably free of bitterness... the poisonousness of its targets never infects the author's vision, nor his faith in people's power to resist
Guardian

It's a book of wonderful purple phases...restless, epic, allusive
Scotsman

Praise on Devil on the Cross: 'This novel will be regarded as one of the historic staging posts of African Fiction. Ngugi is the most celebrated of African novelists. What he offers is nothing less than a new direction for African writing.
British Book News

Praise on Petals of Blood Ambitious, caustic and impassioned
The New Yorker

A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair . . . a bomshell
The Weekly Review

The definitive African book of the twentieth century.
Moses Isegawa, author of Abyssinian Chronicles and Snakepit