Marco Martis Martis থেকে Górki Grabińskie, Poland
High points of this book: engaging. For most this is going to be a book that will completely absorb them on the beach, in transportation, after work, and all that... easy to lose yourself in, that's what I mean. I really loved the zoological elements but found the ending a little too "AND NOW WE HAVE A HUGE TWIST... WHICH IS THE TRUTH?!!" for me. I think people can do that literary work without that much help, but it is fun, at least.
Soyinka gets into the mind of a child in this biography, or perhaps memoir (?), better than any fiction or nonfiction work I've read. I found it very relatable. Which surprised me, even as I write it, because it is about growing up in rural Nigeria.
I would argue that as much as it is a story of identity and of self discovery, it is a war story about how a culture comes to suffer and possibly make reparations through storytelling; however, I am known to float bogus theories. My final assessment of the novel, by the way, was that it is stunningly written, if a little hard to get into.