An Orchestra of Minorities

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019

Cover Art for 9781408710807, An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
ISBN: 9781408710807
Publisher: Hachette
Published: 17 January, 2019
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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'Chigozie Obioma is a writer to watch' The Economist Umuahia, Nigeria. Chinonso, a young poultry farmer, sees a woman attempting to jump to her death from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his most prized chickens into the water below to demonstrate the severity of the fall. The woman, Ndali, is moved by his sacrifice. Bonded by this strange night on the bridge, Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. But Ndali is from a wealthy family, and when they officially object to the union because he is uneducated, Chinonso sells most of his possessions to attend a small college in Cyprus. Once in Cyprus, he discovers that all is not what it seems. Furious at a world which continues to relegate him to the sidelines, Chinonso gets further and further away from his dream, from Ndali and the place he called home. In this contemporary twist of Homer's ODYSSEY, in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about the tension between destiny and determination. 'Chigozie Obioma truly is the heir to Chinua Achebe' New York Times Book Review

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