An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma, 446 pages.Nigerian author Obioma gives us a tale of love relentlessly blocked by circumstances and family.
Chinoso, a poultry farmer falls in love with a young woman when he prevents her from killing herself. Ndali, his beloved, comes from a wealthy and powerful family. While she loves him, she loves her family as well, and Obioma must deal with their perceptions of him.
In trying to better himself so that Ndali's family will accept him, Obioma finds himself swindled and stranded far from home in Cyprus. Just when he finds a kind stranger who believes him and offers help, his attempt to protect his benefactor, viewed through a xenopobic and racist lens, is viewed as a brutal attack and Obioma is imprisoned. A relentlessly pessimistic tale, told from the point of view of Obioma's chi, his guardian spirit, An Orchestra of Minorities becomes an epic, mythic tale that ties the present to the long history of people who came before Obioma and Ndali and the places they inhabit.
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