The whole of African history unfolds in this brilliant novel from one of the continent's major writers.
The story is unified by the actions of one man, Mankunku, a destroyer, who is born in mysterious circumstances in a banana plantation and whose identity is as variable as that of his land.
This novel traces his development along with that of his unnamed country, from the precolonial era, through the horrors of European subjugation, to independence and the complexities of the postcolonial.
