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"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"--
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Prestige, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Wole Soyinka
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593467213
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