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Book SynopsisA largely allegorical exploration of the loneliness of the rootless, The Waiting radiates from metropolitan Ghana to encompass the world. The second book of Martin Egblewogbe, whose hilarious The Gonjon Pin lent its title to the 2014 Caine Prize anthology, it sparkles with local myth while paying homage to Kafka, often with hilarious outcomes.
Trade ReviewEgblewogbe has created in this collection, The Waiting, one of those rare works of art that is hard to categorise, not simply for its fecund descriptions, but more so because of a stylistic originality that transcends pigeonholing. With a power of description as evocative and poignant as it is tender, Egblewogbe's subject matters range from the simple, though far from simplistic, to the almost metaphysical. He is as adept in covering the shenanigans of a pastor in The Going Down of Pastor Muntumi, with Maupassantian irony, as he is with the seemingly existential scope of a story such as The Cwroling Caterpillar. - Benjamin Kwakye
