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The Road to the Country Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the New American Voices Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe, The Economist, and Kirkus Reviews A sweeping, heart-racing novel about a university student trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of war— an odyssey of love, friendship, and unimaginable courage by the author of The Fisherman and An Orchestra of Minorities “With heartbreaking realism, Obioma captures the dizzying atmosphere of despair, determination, and chaos surrounding the Biafran soldiers. This live-wire war story is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] triumph.”—Booklist (starred review) “A writer who wields both the grand and the intimate with incredible precision and power. Obioma reminds us that it is all real, even the surreal, and in his hands anything is possible. A wondrous novel.”—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All Stars, finalist for the National Book Awa
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