Brich auf in früher Dämmerung von Soyinka, Wole

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's debut novel about a group of young Nigerian intellectuals trying to come to grips with themselves and their changing country. First published in 1965.They are the interpreters. Drawn together by their hopes,...

A political novel about the dangers of corruption, greed, and the desire for power. This is Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel The Interpreters.In an unnamed country in Africa, Ofeyi writes propaganda...

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth von Soyinka, Wole

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional...

A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. Aké: The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba...

Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England;...

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth von Soyinka, Wole

Six masterful works by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright. Death and the King's Horseman: 'A transfixing work of modern world drama' - Independent Madmen and Specialists: 'A luminous play, examining the way in which war exposes...

Der Nobelpreisträger Wole Soyinka reist in seine Kindheit und setzt seinem Vater ein Denkmal Immer zu Neujahr trifft sich Wole Soyinka in Ìsarà mit Freunden und Verwandten, die in andere Städte ziehen mussten, um Arbeit zu finden. Sie...

In seiner zauberhaften und detailgenauen Kindheitserinnerung erzählt der Nobelpreisträger über seinen Geburtsort Aké, eine Missionsstation in Nigeria. Er erzählt über die Liebe zu seiner "wilden Christin", wie er seine Mutter nennt, über...