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Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth
- Title
- Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth / Wole Soyinka.
- Author
- Soyinka, Wole
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 22-96 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-299 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 444 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York, but it now seems that someone is determined that he not make it there. And neither Dr. Menka nor Duyole knows why, or how close the enemy is, or how powerful. [This book] is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption."--Dust jacket flap.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Political fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "Originally published in Nigeria by Bookcraft Limited, Ibadan, in 2020"--Title page verso.
- Contents
- Oke Konran-Imoran -- The gospel according to happiness -- Pilgrim's progress -- Scoffer's progress -- Villa potencia -- Father, is that you? -- An intellectual property heist: the inside story -- Jos -- The rumble of the humble -- The audience -- The hand of God -- Boriga or bust -- Surgical transplant -- Badetona -- Badagry -- The Codex Seraphinianus -- A deadly rivalry -- A vigil too far -- The discreet funeral of the bourgeoisie -- Homecoming -- Ziggurat or death -- The board of happiness -- Clash of the titans
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-96
- ISBN
- 9780593320167
- 0593320166
- OCLC
- 1238132759
- Author
- Soyinka, Wole, author.
- Title
- Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth / Wole Soyinka.
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-96JFE 22-299