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Description: "Drawn together by their hopes, loves, dissatisfactions, and the daily lives and deaths around them, five young Nigerian intellectuals attempt to define their identity in a world where their cultural past and Western-influenced present are brought into conflict"--

Review Quotes: "The novel is rich in well-turned individual scenes. . . . it is a work in which the esthetic and political problems are meshed in an almost classical way."
--The New York Times

"It is elaborately, strikingly and indeed often beautifully written."
--The Times

"A great steaming marsh of a novel. . . brimful of promise and life."
--New Statesmen

"The first African novel that has a texture of real complexity and depth."
--Gerald Moore, The New African