The Road to the Country

When a country is plunged into civil war, two brothers on either side of it are divided.

They will try to find their way back to each other. Kunle’s search for his sibling Tunde becomes a journey of atonement which sees him conscripted into the army to fight a war he hardly understands.

Once there, he will forge friendships to last a lifetime, and he will meet a woman who will change his world forever. But will he find his brother?

The story of a young man seeking redemption in a nation on fire, Chigozie Obioma’s novel is an odyssey of brotherhood, love and unimaginable courage set during the Biafran War.

Intertwining myth and realism into a thrilling, inspired and emotionally powerful novel, The Road to the Country is a masterpiece.

The Road to the Country is Chigozie Obioma at his finest. He is a novelist in a league of his own’ Imbolo Mbue

A remarkable talent’ Independent,Chigozie Obioma is a gifted and original storyteller’ Jennifer Clement

Few contemporary novels achieve the seductive panache of Obioma’s heightened language’ Guardian‘One of the most exciting voices of modern African literature’ Financial Times

‘A truly gifted writer, Obioma has proven yet again that he’s a literary treasure’ Nicole Dennis-Benn.