The Interpreters

Wole Soyinka · 1965 CE · Novel · Nigerian · Contemporary

Five young Nigerians back from study abroad, among them an engineer, a journalist, an academic and a painter, drink through the nightclubs of Lagos and Ibadan taking apart the country they inherited and each other. An American graduate student and an albino evangelist push the circle toward something none of them controls. One of the founding modernist experiments in African fiction.

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