Forest of a Thousand Daemons

A Hunter's Saga

AvD.O. Fagunwa

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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'Some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing' WOLE SOYINKA, Nobel Prize-winning author of LAND OF THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE ON EARTH'A classic of the African imagination' BEN OKRI, Booker Prize-winning author of THE FAMISHED ROADPublished in Nigeria in 1939, The Forest of a Thousand Daemons is the first novel be written in Yoruba. The narrative unfolds in a landscape where, true to Yoruba cosmology, human, natural and supernatural beings are compellingly and wonderfully alive at once: a world of warriors, sages and kings; magical trees and snake people; spirits, Ghommids and bog-trolls. Here are the adventures of Akara-ogun — son of a brave warrior and wicked witch — as he journeys into the forest, encountering and dealing with all-too-real unforeseen forces, engaging in dynamic spiritual and moral relationships with personifications of his fate, projections of the terrors that haunt man.'A very important book' MARLON JAMES, Booker Prize-winning author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-05-20
Mått:129 x 198 x 11 mm
Vikt:122 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Penguin African Writers
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:9781405986250
Översättare:Wole Soyinka

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D.O. Fagunwa MBE (1903 -1963) was a Nigerian author who pioneered the Yoruba-language novel. He was born in Oke-Igbo, Ondo State. An Oloye of the Yoruba people, Fagunwa studied at St. Luke's School, Oke-Igbo, and St. Andrew's College, Oyo, before becoming a teacher himself. Fagunwa was the author of several novels, most of which was translated into English by the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. In 1955, Fagunwa was awarded the Maragaret Wong Prize and in 1959, he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He died in 1963 in Nigeria.