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The Road to the Country

The Road to the Country

Chigozie Obioma (born 1986)

English editions

Written in English

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Kunle is a shy, bookish university student in Lagos, weighed down by an old guilt. When his younger brother disappears as Nigeria descends into civil war in the late 1960s, he sets off on a seemingly hopeless search. The journey becomes an act of atonement: he is conscripted into the army of breakaway Biafra and made to fight a war he barely understands, while a local seer's prophecy marks him as an abami eda, one who will die and come back to life.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
War, Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Nigeria, late 1960s
First published
2024
Author's age
38 when first published
ISBN

9780593596975 (Hogarth, United States)

9781529153460 (Cornerstone, United Kingdom)

9781804943809 (Penguin, United Kingdom)

9780593596982 (Hogarth, United States)

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