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基本信息·出版社：Vintage
·页码：784 页
·出版日期：2007年04月
·ISBN：0099502682
·条形码：9780099502685
·版本：New Ed
·装帧：平装
·外文书名：乌鸦精灵
内容简介 In exile for more than twenty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attention and praise. His aim in "Wizard of the Crow" is, in his own words, nothing less than 'to sum up Africa of the twentieth century in the context of 2,000 years of world history.' Commencing in 'our times' and set in the 'Free Republic of Aburiria', the novel dramatises with corrosive humour and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburirian people. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, Ngugi reveals humanity in all its ceaselessly surprising complexity. Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, "Wizard of the Crow" is a masterpiece, the crowning achievement in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's career thus far.
作者简介 Ngugi Wa Thiong'o:
Ngugi wa Thiong'o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature ate the university of California, Irvin, and is director of the university's International Centre for Writing and Translation. His books include
Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977. He lives in Irvine, California.
媒体推荐 Scotsman 'It's a book of wonderful purple phases...restless, epic, allusive.' - Tom Adair
Sunday Herald 'huge, comic novel, shimmering, shifting discourse. It is the crowning achievement of an astonishing career.' - Brian Morton
The Herald "It's an absorbing tale: wry, inventive and often hilarious"
Financial Times `The author mixes gleeful comedy and folktale-like magical realism
to marvellous effect. It's long, but the story keeps you hooked.'
编辑推荐 Scotsman 'It's a book of wonderful purple phases...restless, epic, allusive.' - Tom Adair
Sunday Herald 'huge, comic novel, shimmering, shifting discourse. It is the crowning achievement of an astonishing career.' - Brian Morton
The Herald "It's an absorbing tale: wry, inventive and often hilarious"
Financial Times `The author mixes gleeful comedy and folktale-like magical realism to marvellous effect. It's long, but the story keeps you hooked.'
