Wizard of the Crow - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Wizard of the Crow

By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

  • Release Date: 2006-08-08
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 7 Ratings

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.

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.

Reviews

  • Wizard of the Crow

    5
    By War of the flea
    Outstanding fiction political nonfiction story. It is the emperor with no clothes in the land of greed. Read it! The author is the true wizard in writing this story.