- Booker Prize 2019 · Shortlist
An Orchestra of Minorities
An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma (born 1986)
English editions
Written in EnglishAn Orchestra of Minorities
Little, Brown Paperbacks · United States · 8 October 2019 · Paperback · 464 pages
An Orchestra of Minorities
Little, Brown · United Kingdom · 17 January 2019 · Hardcover
An Orchestra of Minorities
Little, Brown · United States · January 2019 · Hardcover · 464 pages
An Orchestra of Minorities
Little, Brown Book Group · United Kingdom · 13 August 2019 · Paperback
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Since his father died, Chinonso has lived alone with the chickens he raises in Umuahia, Nigeria. Crossing a bridge one day, he finds a woman on the point of jumping and, to show her how far she would fall, throws a pair of his finest birds over the edge. The woman, Ndali, from a prominent family and in despair over a broken engagement, is touched, and they fall in love. Her relatives reject him for his lack of education, and to win them over he gives up his land and everything he owns for a place at a college in Cyprus, arranged by an old acquaintance, only to find that nothing there is as promised. The story is told by his chi, the spirit that in Igbo belief guards each person, speaking as his advocate.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Love, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Nigeria, Cyprus
- First published
- 2019
- Author's age
- 33 when first published
- ISBN
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9781408710807 (Little, Brown, United Kingdom)
9780316412391 (Little, Brown, United States)
9780349143187 (Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom)
9780316412407 (Little, Brown Paperbacks, United States)
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