An Orchestra of Minorities is a masterpiece by Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker Prize. This is a poignant odyssey novel about the struggle with fate and how the kindest heart under its blows can be filled with black bitterness. A little man drama steeped in Igbo mythology, set in modern-day Africa. Chinonso is a young Nigerian farmer with a passion for his birds. But one night he meets a woman on a bridge trying to jump into a muddy stream. Salvation becomes the beginning of love, but Chinonso is no match for Ndali. To win the hand of his beloved, he sells all his property and goes to Cyprus to get an education. But it soon turns out that he was cruelly deceived: Chinonso is left alone in a foreign country - without money and without a roof over his head. Like Odysseus, he drifts further and further from his dreams and from home. “Few modern novels can achieve the virtuoso sound that Obioma gives to his text, skillfully combining English, Igbo language and flowery Anglo-African phrases. The story is full of cruelty, and yet its main theme is a cry for mercy for the most fragile of all earthly creatures, for the son of man.” —Guardian