A sweeping heart-racing mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his
brother and himself amid the chaos of Nigeria’s civil war—a story of love friendship and
personal triumph by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and the heir to Chinua Achebe” (New York
Times)A wondrous novel.”—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah author of Chain-Gang All Stars finalist for
the National Book AwardChigozie 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.”—The Wall Street
JournalThe first images of the vision are grainy—like something seen through wet glass. But
slowly it clears and there appears the figure of a man.Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s The
Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy bookish student haunted by long-held guilt who
must go to war to free himself. When his younger brother disappears as the country explodes in
civil war Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission. Kunle’s search for his brother
becomes a journey of atonement that will see him conscripted into the breakaway Biafran army
and forced to fight a war he hardly understands all while navigating the prophecies of a local
Seer he who marks Kunle as an abami eda—one who will die and return to life.The story of a
young man seeking redemption in a country on fire Chigozie Obioma’s novel is an odyssey of
brotherhood love and unimaginable courage set during one of the most devastating conflicts in
the history of Africa. Intertwining myth and realism into a thrilling inspired and
emotionally powerful novel The Road to the Country is the masterpiece of Chigozie Obioma a
writer Salman Rushdie calls a major voice” in literature.
