Doing It in Hellfire
Blake Morrison: Chigozie Obioma’s ‘The Road to the Country’, 18 July 2024
The Road to the Country
by Chigozie Obioma.
Hutchinson Heinemann, 358 pp., £16.99, May,978 1 5291 5346 0 Show More
by Chigozie Obioma.
Hutchinson Heinemann, 358 pp., £16.99, May,
“... stupendous Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), which has a bibliography of thirty books about the war.Chigozie Obioma’s acknowledgments are more selective, just a dozen or so titles. But he has drawn heavily, as Adichie did, on the memories of an earlier generation: his father took him to interview both Biafran and federal veterans. The Road to the Country ... ”
