CHRONICLES from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

Nobel-Prize winning Wole Soyinka's first novel in 48 years: CHRONICLES from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

A MAJOR LITERARY EVENT AND TESTAMENT TO SOYINKA'S GENIUS, CHRONICLES from The Land of The Happiest People On Earth, Soyinka's first novel in 48 years, is a master at the top of his game. Wry, shrewd, hilarious in parts, frightening in others, profoundly political; this is a tale of intrigue that is uniquely Soyinka. With wit and spellbinding language CHRONICLES recounts a good old fashioned who-done-it of deadly serious ancestral and political machinations. All told in a voice that is as original as it is undeniable.
Cervantes, Marquez, Voltaire. Mark Twain. Kafka. Waugh. A masterful lightness of touch. Incomparable vision, superb craft, enormous generosity of spirit. In short, world class literature. A classic.

WOLE SOYINKA, one of the world's foremost writers, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
1986. A novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, memoirist, and translator, his works include DEATH AND
THE KING'S HORSEMAN, THE INTERPRETERS, AKÉ, and SEASON OF ANOMY.