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Wizard of the Crow

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Hardcover | Pages: 768 pages

Rating: 4.19 | 2507 Users | 335 Reviews

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Title	:	Wizard of the Crow
Author	:	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 768 pages
Published	:	August 8th 2006 by Pantheon (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Magical Realism. Fantasy. Eastern Africa. Kenya. Literature. African Literature

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From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic--a magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African literature.

In exile now for more than twenty years, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attention and praise. His aim in Wizard of the Crow is, in his own words,nothing less than “to sum up Africa of the twentieth century in the context of two thousand years of world history.”

Commencing in “our times” and set in the “Free Republic of Aburĩria,” the novel dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburĩrian people. Among the contenders: His High Mighty Excellency; the eponymous Wizard, an avatar of folklore and wisdom; the corrupt Christian Ministry; and the nefarious Global Bank. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, Wizard of the Crow reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity.

Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, Wizard of the Crow is a masterpiece, the crowning achievement in Ngugl wa Thiong’o’s career thus far.

Mention Books As Wizard of the Crow

Original Title:	Mũrogi wa Kagogo
ISBN:	037542248X (ISBN13: 9780375422485)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Republic of Aburiria
Literary Awards:	California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2006), Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2007), Tähtifantasia Award (2008), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Fiction (2007)

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This is a fantastic piece of satire. If you enjoyed The Master and Margarita or Gulliver's Travels, you're almost certain to appreciate this book. On the other hand, if you're a fan of Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie, you will find a familiar voice in Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O.I can not recommend this book highly enough. I couldn't put it down, and I loved every minute of it. You should read it.

Well, finally finished the nearly 800 page novel, The Wizard of the Crow, by Nugui wa Thiongo. I read much of Nuguis novels and other works during my political activists days in college. I wrote a paper about one of his most respected novels, Devil on the Cross. The professor who helped me with the paper wanted me to present it at an African literature conference at Standford Univ. (this was in the mid 1980s), but I was too shy to do it. I wasnt very good at speaking in front of large gatherings

This was good.

Epic, satirical, magical-realism account of the fictional African country of Aburiria. Aburiria is an African dictatorship run by a typical African big-man The Ruler whose control over the country remains strong but who increasingly struggles to find his way in a post Cold-War world where his previous allies in the West now criticise the very actions for which he was once praised and who increasingly finds himself a puppet of the American led Global Bank. He is surrounded by sycophantic

If you love Dictator Novels you'll love this one.Also, there's just not that many long books I've come across from the African Continent. There's The City of God of course, but that's not really what we're talking about. So of course you offer me an 800 page brick of a book from The Continent, sure, I'm going to go after it. And in a day and an age like this, if you reside in the USofA and you're curious about LeClair's call for a Rump=Age novel, well, here you'll have a pretty good model to

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is an exiled Kenyan writer. Born in Kenya he was baptized as a Christian. He renounced it, even English, changed his name to ' Ngugi wa Thiong'o' and writes in his native tongue. He then translates them back himself to English. This is how his novels are published. He is also an opponent of the oppressive Kenyan government and has suffered a lot due to that. More on that later. His novels do not focus on the effect of colonization and conversion to Christianity in Africa as is

I don't have to say other than I thoroughly enjoyed this satire about a fictitious (?) African dictator