Wizard of the Crow
General fiction, Humourous fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel from the acclaimed Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and critic.&“Wizard of the Crow is first and foremost a great, spellbinding tale, probably the crowning glory… of Ngugi&’s life&’s work. . . . He has turned the power of storytelling into a weapon against totalitarianism.&” —The Washington Post Book WorldSet in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for the souls of the Aburirian people, between a megalomaniac dictator and an unemployed young man who embraces the mantle of a magician. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, in this magnificent work of magical realism, Ngugi wa'Thiong'o—one of the most widely read African writers—reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity.