TY - ABST T1 - Chronicle from the Land of Happiest People on Earth. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Wole [Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde] Soyinka (b. 1934) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

The novel depicts a future African country, similar to Nigeria, that is corrupted by greed and the desire for power. Part mystery novel. Much humor.

PB - Bookcraft CY - Ibadan, Nigeria SN - 9789785795714 978-0593320167 N1 -

U.S. ed. as Chronicle from the Land of Happiest People on Earth. New York: Pantheon Books, 2021. 444 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Season of Anomy Y1 - 1973 A1 - Wole [Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde] Soyinka (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The first two chapters present a communal eutopia. Much of the rest of the book presents current reality as dystopia, but the eutopian Aiyéró provides the possibility of something better.

PB - Rex Collings CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, Eng.: Nelson, 1980.

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