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A Poultry Farmer’s Song of Burden in the Face of Fate Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities

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Influenced by Homer’s Odyssey, Chigozie Obioma’s latest novel, An Orchestra of Minorities, blends the ancient and the modern in telling the story of a young Igbo poultry farmer in post-independence Nigeria. In this novel, Obioma whose debut, The Fishermen, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, portrays life, love and pain as different yet connected entities. Readers will immediately observe tradition and mysticism as the similarities that connect The Fishermen—which traces the
 

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