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, Ngugl wa Thiong'o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, …
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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, Ngugl 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 Aburlria," the novel dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburlrian 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.From the Hardcover edition.
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Wizard of the Crow
Paperback, 784 pages
English language
Published Aug. 28, 2007 by Anchor.
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- OCLC Number:
- 166143526
Kargalar Büyücüsü
Paperback, 800 pages
Turkish language
Published by Ayrinti Yayinlari.
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- 978-605-314-502-8Copied ISBN!
El brujo del cuervo
Paperback, 712 pages
Published by Alfaguara, ALFAGUARA.
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- 978-84-204-7341-3Copied ISBN!
Wizard of the Crow
784 pages
English language
Published Aug. 8, 2006 by Pantheon.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-375-42248-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 61448278
Wizard of the crow
Hardcover, 784 pages
Published by Harvill Secker.
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- 978-1-84655-034-8Copied ISBN!
El brujo del cuervo
mass market paperback, 800 pages
Published by Debolsillo, DEBOLSILLO.
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- 978-84-9062-759-4Copied ISBN!
Herr der Krähen
Paperback
German language
Published by FISCHER Taschenbuch.
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- 978-3-596-19172-7Copied ISBN!
Wizard Of The Crow
784 pages
Published Jan. 6, 2007 by Vintage Books USA.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-950268-5Copied ISBN!
Wizard of the Crow
eBook
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2008 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-307-49331-6Copied ISBN!
Wizard of the crow
English language
Published 2007 by East African Educational Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-9966-25-491-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 82772798
Wizard of the Crow
784 pages
English language
Published 2018 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-1-78487-335-6Copied ISBN!
Wizard of the Crow
784 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-1-84655-029-4Copied ISBN!
Wizard of the Crow
English language
Published 2014 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-1-4735-1336-5Copied ISBN!
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