The Road To The Country

A university student in Lagos tries to save his brother-and himself-amid the chaos of Nigeria's civil war in this sweeping, heartracing, mystical novel by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and "the heir to Chinua Achebe" (New York Times) "Chigozie Obioma is that rare thing: an original. His world is a mix of the real and the folkloric, and his writing sounds like no one else's." -Wall Street Journal At first the vision is grainy-like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man.