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The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma

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The Road to the Country

by Chigozie Obioma

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Narrator Junior Nyong'o

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Length 13 hours 47 minutes

Language English

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The twice Booker-shortlisted author returns with his third novel, THE ROAD TO THE COUNTRY, about a young man, Tunde, whose brother is involved in an accident and stranded just as the Biafran war begins. Tunde spends the novel travelling through a war zone to be reunited with his brother - to bring him home and to ask for forgiveness for the part he played in the accident, a part his brother has no knowledge of.

A modern day BAND OF BROTHERS or BIRDSONG, THE ROAD TO THE COUNTRY is set to stand alongside HALF OF A YELLOW SUN as the defining novel of one of the most devastating civil wars of the 20th century.

'Obioma is truly the heir to Chinua Achebe' New York Times
'Remarkable' Alice Walker
'A major new African writer' Salman Rushdie

©2024 Chigozie Obioma (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Fiction Fiction - Literary

Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two previous novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, were both finalist for the Booker Prize. His novels have won the inaugural FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Award, and the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction and have been nominated for many others. Together, they have been translated into thirty languages. He was named one of Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and divides his time between the United States and Nigeria.

Audiobook details

Author Chigozie Obioma

Narrator Junior Nyong'o

ISBN 9781804950135

Length 13 hours 47 minutes

Language English

Publisher Cornerstone

Publication date May 30, 2024

Edition Unabridged

Genres Fiction & Fiction - Literary

Libro.fm rank #48,371 Overall

Genre rank #4,615 in Fiction - Literary

Reviews

This powerfully evocative and intimate book is unarguably Obioma’s finest. Through subtle, piercing, and gripping language, he renders those seemingly simple but unforgettable moments when our lives intertwine with history, anchoring you to the pages until the end. The Road to the Country will remind you that our existence is the histories of past, present, and the future—and the importance of understanding that. This is among the best books I’ve read in a while and is certainly destined to be a classic A spectacular blend of realism and mysticism, The Road to the Country is Chigozie Obioma at his finest. He is a novelist in a league of his own A remarkable talent A major new African writer Incredibly moving and hopeful. Both an adventure story and a portrait of brotherhood, love and companionship. In each beautifully crafted sentence, Obioma shows us how the best of humanity is often created under extreme pressure Expand reviews

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