Wole Soyinka Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth :

Soyinkas greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book Ben OkriA lion of African literature Financial TimesChronicles is many things at once a caustic political satire, a murder mystery, a conspiracy story and a deeply felt lament for the spirit of a nation Juan Gabriel Vsquez, New York TimesA FINANCIAL TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARTo Doctor Menkas horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already at the end of his tether from the horrors he routinely sees in surgery, he shares this latest development with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer and Yoruba royal, Duyole PitanPayne, who has never before met a puzzle he couldnt solve. Neither realise how close the enemy is, nor how powerful. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a savagely witty whodunit, a scathing indictment of Nigerias political elite, and a provocative call to arms from one of the countrys most relentless political activists and an international literary giant. A highjinks stateofthenation novel Chibundu OnuzoChronicles is a good model for what the political novel should be fearless, disdaining formal constraints, sparing no one Guardian | Wole Soyinka Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth :