Season of Anomy
by Wole Soyinka
Nigeria's Nobel laureate, writing through a genocide.
you want to understand the Biafran war from the perspective of someone who tried to stop it
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Soyinka wrote this novel as a response to the Biafran war — a war he tried to prevent by negotiating between the sides and was imprisoned for his efforts. The novel is allegorical, the names changed, but the violence is real and the grief is real. A writer using fiction to process a catastrophe that nonfiction couldn't contain. The dispatch from inside the specific anguish of a man who saw what was coming and couldn't stop it.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Nigeria • West Africa
- Voice
- Written by a Nigerian author
- Themes
- After Empire
