Wizard of the Crow

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Title: Wizard of the Crow Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o ISBN: 9781400033843 Publisher: Anchor Published: 2007 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Number of Pages: 784 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel from the acclaimed Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and critic. "Wizard of the Crow is first and foremost a great, spellbinding tale, probably the crowning glory of Ngugi's life's work. . . . He has turned the power of storytelling into a weapon against totalitarianism." --The Washington Post Book World Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for the souls of the Aburirian people, between a megalomaniac dictator and an unemployed young man who embraces the mantle of a magician. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, in this magnificent work of magical realism, Ngugi wa'Thiong'o--one of the most widely read African writers--reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity. Show more