Wizard of the Crow

*A landmark of postcolonial African literature, Wizard of the Crow* is an ambitious, magisterial, comic novel from the acclaimed Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and critic.

"Wizard of the Crow is first and foremost a great, spellbinding tale, probably the crowning glory of Ngugi's life's work. . . . He has turned the power of storytelling into a weapon against totalitarianism." -*The Washington Post Book World***

Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for the souls of the Aburirian people, between a megalomaniac dictator and an unemployed young man who embraces the mantle of a magician. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, in this magnificent work of magical realism, Ngugi wa'Thiong'o-one of the most widely read African writers-reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity.