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Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling city prominently situated on the eastern bank of the Niger River. But gradually he comes to recognize the intolerance and brutality of the colonial system. His youthful point of view provides the novel with a notably di...

J. M. G. Le Cl¿o, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in Nice in 1940 and is one of France¿s best-known contemporary writers. His books Onitsha and The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts are both available from the University of Nebraska Press. Alison Anderson is the author of Hidden Latitudes and Darwin¿s Wink and translated Le Cl¿o¿s Onitsha.

Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Cl¿o was born in Nice in 1940 and is one of France¿s best-known contemporary writers. He has published more than thirty novels and nonfiction works. In the course of the last four decades Le Cl¿o has won numerous prizes, including the Prix Renaudot for his first novel. His works have been translated into many languages. ¿Alison Anderson is the author of Hidden Latitudes. She has worked...