Book Launch Party: English & Creative Writing Professor Chigozie Obioma's The Road to the Country

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Please join the English Department and the Creative Writing Program for a reading and reception at Ciné for Chigozie Obioma's newest book The Road to the Country. 

Books will be for sale by Avid Bookshop. For accessibility requests, contact events@avidbookshop.com. Please submit your request at least two weeks before the event.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

"A sweeping, heartracing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos who must save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria's civil war—a story of love, friendship, and family by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and 'the heir to Chinua Achebe'" —New York Times

"Chigozie Obioma is that rare thing: an original. His world is a mix of the real and the folkloric, and his writing sounds like no one else’s." —Wall Street Journal

The story of a young man seeking redemption in a country on fire, Chigozie Obioma’s novel is an odyssey of brotherhood, love, and unimaginable courage set during one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of Africa. Intertwining myth and realism into a thrilling, inspired, and emotionally powerful novel, The Road to the Country is the masterpiece of Chigozie Obioma, a writer Salman Rushdie calls "a major voice" in literature.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels have won the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and have been nominated for many others. He was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers. He is the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia and divides his time between the U.S. and Nigeria. His novels have been translated into 30 languages.