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Wizard of the crow

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  • ""Commencing in 'our times' and set in the fictional 'Free Republic of Aburiria,' Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor 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 mozaic, this magnificent novel reveals humanity in all its endlessly suprising complexity." -- cover."
  • "The individual stories of characters both powerful and ordinary creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of postcolonial Africa in the twentieth century in a novel set in the Free Republic of Aburiria."
  • ""Commencing in 'our times' and set in the fictional 'Free Republic of Aburiria, ' Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor 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 mozaic, this magnificent novel reveals humanity in all its endlessly suprising complexity."--Cover."
  • "A novel."
  • "The fictional Republic of Aburiria chronicled in this satirical fable is an exaggeration of contemporary African despotism. At the top, a grandiose Ruler with 'the power to declare any month in the year the seventh month' and his sycophantic cabinet plan to climb to heaven with a modern-day Tower of Babel funded by the Global Bank; beneath them, a cabal of venal officials and opportunistic businessmen jockey for a piece of the pie; at the bottom are the unemployed masses who wait in endless lines behind every help-wanted sign. Kamiti, an archetypal New Man with two university degrees and no job prospects, sets up shop as a wizard; with the help of Nyawira, member of both an underground dissident movement and a feminist dance troupe, he dispenses therapeutic sorcery to a citizenry that finds witchcraft less absurd than everyday life."

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  • "Political fiction"
  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Text"
  • "Satire"
  • "Satire"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Littérature kikuyu"
  • "Texts"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Political satire"
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  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en

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  • "Wizard of the crow : [a novel] ; a transl. from Gĩkũyũ by the author"
  • "Mũrogi wa Kagogo : rũgano ta ũrĩa rwaguũrĩirio"
  • "Wizard of the crow [a novel]"
  • "Wizard of the crow"@en
  • "Wizard of the crow"
  • "Wizard of the Crow"
  • "Wizard of the crow : a translation from Gĩkũyũ by the author"
  • "Wizard of the crow : a translation from Gĩkũyũ by the author"@en
  • "Mũrogi wa Kagogo"
  • "Wizard of the crow : [a novel]"
  • "Murogi wa Kagogo : Rugano ; Ta uria rwaguuriirio ; [Mbuku ya Mbere na ya Keri]"

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