A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria\u2019s civil war\u2014a story of love, friendship, and personal triumph by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and \u201cthe heir to Chinua Achebe\u201d (New York Times)<\/p>\n
\u201cA wondrous novel.\u201d\u2014Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All Stars, finalist for the National Book Award<\/p>\n
\u201cChigozie 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\u2019s.\u201d\u2014The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n
The first images of the vision are grainy\u2014like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s 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\u2014one who will die and return to life.<\/p>\n
The story of a young man seeking redemption in a country on fire, Chigozie Obioma\u2019s 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 \u201ca major voice\u201d in literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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