THE ROAD TO THE COUNTRY

358pp., paperback, London, 2024

"A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria’s civil war - a story of love, friendship, and personal triumph by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and 'the heir to Chinua Achebe'” New York Times

Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two previous novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, were both finalists for the Booker Prize. The Fishermen won the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, he divides his time between the United States and Nigeria.