num_pages: 262
description: The 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature--the first African to be awarded the prize--writes a highly incisive and deeply affecting re-creation of colonial Nigeria based on a cache of letters he discovered after his father's death.
language: English
title: Ìsarà: A Voyage Around "Essay"
titlecomplete: Ìsarà: A Voyage Around "Essay"
genres: Africa, Fiction, Nigeria, Nobel Prize
ratings_count: 74
places: Nigeria
publisher: Random House