A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigerias civil wara story of love, friendship, and personal triumph by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and the heir to Chinua Achebe (New York Times)
A wondrous novel.Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All Stars, finalist for the National Book Award
Chigozie 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 elses.The Wall Street Journal
The first images of the vision are grainylike something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man.
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...M.F