Description: Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria.
Brief description:
Wole Soyinka is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934.
Soyinka won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature with his debut novel, The Interpreters, becoming the first-ever African laureate and has since won many other prizes such as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award in 2009 and the Anisfield-Wolf book Award, Lifetime Achievement in 2012. A prominent political activist, Soyinka was imprisoned for nearly two years during the Nigerian Civil War and was later exiled. He continues to fight against government corruption and oppression worldwide.Review Quotes:
"No other writer has Soyinka's unique positioning in the political and cultural life of his nation" --Ben Okri
"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" --New York Times "Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian icon" --Guardian "Elaborately, strikingly and indeed often beautifully written" --The Times