FINALIST FOR THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria's civil war--a story of love, friendship, and personal triumph by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and 'the heir to Chinua Achebe' (New York Times) 'A wondrous novel.'--Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All Stars, finalist for the National Book Award 'Chigozie Obioma is that rare thing: an original. His world is a mix of the real and the folkloric, and his writing sounds like no one else's.'--The Wall Street Journal Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the New American Voices Award - Named a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe, The Economist, and Kirkus Reviews The first images of the vision are grainy--like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The