Amor Towles and Chicozie Obiama were authors I had never heard of until two months ago. Having seen the way Stefie looked when she was reading A gentleman in Moskow made me want to buy it. When it comes to An orchestra of minorities it was the title itself that first drew my attention. Once the synopsis of both books were read I felt I needed to effectively buy them.
I must confess I find them both rather unique. Not only are the stories gripping but also the writing styles of these authors.
This (and I quote) is a testament to the idea enunciated in the book that "adversity presents itself in many forms, and if a man does not master his circumstances, then he is bound to be mastered by them."
"It brims with intelligence, erudition and insight, an old-fashioned novel in the best sense of the term." - Fareed Zakaria - Global Public Square, CNN
"A contemporary twist in Homer's Odissey. A heart-wrenching epic about the tension between destiny and determination." - Little Brown and Company, UK
"An Orchestra of Minorities is a triumph: a wholly unsentimental epic that unspools smoothly over nearly a decade, it is set with equal success across two continents, employing myth and spirituality to create a vibrant new world ... the chi and all the spirits the reader encounters along the way ... imbue the novel with the richness of Igbo belief, transforming a tale of love and foolishness into a profound study of human frailty and the power of evil over the imagination. In an era of copycats, an Orchestra of minorities is an unusual and brilliantly original book" - The Economist
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