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The Road to the Country:
A Novel
Chigozie Obioma
Hardback: Hogarth, 2024
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“With heartbreaking realism, Obioma captures the dizzying atmosphere of despair, determination, and chaos surrounding the Biafran soldiers. This live-wire war story is not to be missed.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Obioma catalogs the enormous collateral damage [of war] to the civilian population, the glimpse of a child so thin, “wasted to the bones, with a stomach so round and distended” her skin was beginning to rip. The language is always controlled, always precise, and the details are so harrowing that the novel can be read on the level of profoundly moving historical fiction.
— Maryanne Hannan, from our review
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