EAN: 9781526638250

CHRONICLES FROM THE LAND OF THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE...

Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' - Ben Okri  'A lion of African
literature' - Financial Times  'Chronicles is many things at once: a caustic political satire 
a murder mystery  a conspiracy story and a deeply felt lament for the spirit of a nation' -
Juan Gabriel Vásquez  New York Times  To Doctor Menka's horror  some cunning entrepreneur has
decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already at the
end of his tether from the horrors he routinely sees in surgery  he shares this latest
development with his oldest college friend  bon viveur  star engineer and Yoruba royal  Duyole
Pitan-Payne  who has never before met a puzzle he couldn't solve. Neither realise how close the
enemy is  nor how powerful.  Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at
once a savagely witty whodunit  a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite  and a
provocative call to arms from one of the country's most relentless political activists and an
international literary giant.  'A high-jinks state-of-the-nation novel' - Chibundu Onuzo 
'Chronicles is a good model for what the political novel should be: fearless  disdaining formal
constraints  sparing no one' - Guardian

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