Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth / Wole Soyinka.

First American edition.

New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]

©2020

444 pages ; 25 cm

"Originally published in Nigeria by Bookcraft Limited, Ibadan, in 2020"--Title page verso.

"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.

Online version: Soyinka, Wole, Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth /<b First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2021.

English

October 25, 2021