Season of Anomy

Wole Soyinka · b. 1934 · Nigeria

Why it matters

Ofeyi searches a nation sliding into massacre and cult-like corporate rule for the woman he loves, carrying a utopian farming commune's ideals into the wreckage. Soyinka's second and final novel, written in the shadow of the war he was jailed for trying to stop.

At a glance

Mythic allegory, fragmented chronology, and dense prose poetry demand as much patience as The Interpreters.