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The Native Hurricane

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While Onyenmuo is growing up in Umuozala, a village bound to Ozala and plagued by a murderous monster that attacks every forty years, he displays astonishing cunning and ability. For the residents of Umuozala, living in fear, he is their only hope of escape from the control of the sadistic god Ozala and from the constant threat of death. A remarkable African epic story of...more

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Published August 5th 2008 by G2 Rights

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Jan 08, 2009 Kathy rated it 4 of 5 stars

A thunderous Fable from Africa

This strongly story within a story telling a story novel is a tale of a community's spiral under the reign of a sadistic deity they worshipped. it is also the story of a man who struggling under the divine judgement of the gods, is fated not to die until he has told the world the story he eye-witnessed. It is a good book by a relatively unknown writer.

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Feb 15, 2009 richard rated it 5 of 5 stars

“Nigerian writers have long been talked about and when I saw a review of this book in a Turkish daily, I decided to get it. It is the first book i have read in nglish this year and it ha awoened my interest again.

The Novel opens with an infectious musing of an African boy who had just returned from England in the early 19th century. He has writen a memmoir about the fantastic history of his community and has returned to see if there is still any trace of the events left there. From here the stor...more “Nigerian writers have long been talked about and when I saw a review of this book in a Turkish daily, I decided to get it. It is the first book i have read in nglish this year and it ha awoened my interest again.

The Novel opens with an infectious musing of an African boy who had just returned from England in the early 19th century. He has writen a memmoir about the fantastic history of his community and has returned to see if there is still any trace of the events left there. From here the story moves back to how he got this story from an old man who must tell this story else he would not die and at 30 years of age, is now completely tired of trying to persuade people to hear his story. He is almost killed by shock when the boy finds his house, now abandoned for years and aged with dirt, to be told the story. He resolves to tell it.

The story is then told of the village of Umuozala, troubled by ozala, the deity they serve as god for many years, they cry out for salvation which comes at a high cost from a foreign god whom Chigozie names ojukwu. The new god is determined to destroy ozala sovereinghty and engages it in wars in the minds of the people and in the sky. the comes Onyenmuo, an oracle of the gods who comes as a half=mortal to destroy ozala's physical presence in Umuozala. While on earth, he falls in love with the village belle who has herself, being greatly hunted by ozala.

The story is told from the perspective of the boy who wrote the tale in England and by the old man Okilo who also heard the tale from some goblins in the evil forest.

The book is enjoyable, short and largely concise. However, Chigozie seems to be impatient with most parts of the narratives and there are series of repetitions thathampers one's sympathy with some characters like Okilo being constantly reffered to as, "Old man" when he is infact willing to die.

On the whole, the Book is good and enjoying and amazing breed of fiction, fantasy and realism. He reminded me of Garcia Marquez, growing in isolation.”

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