Books like The Lion and the Jewel
In the Yoruba village of Ilujinle, the schoolteacher Lakunle and Baroka, the old chief, both want to marry Sidi, the village beauty, whose photograph has just appeared in a magazine.
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Arms and the Man
A play: in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War, a Swiss mercenary fleeing the rout climbs into the bedroom of Raina, a romantic young Bulgarian engaged to the hero of the hour.
Man and Superman
A play: John Tanner, a radical writer who fears marriage above all things, is made guardian of Ann Whitefield, who has quietly decided to marry him.
The Interpreters
Five young Nigerian intellectuals home from study abroad, a journalist, an engineer, a lecturer, a painter and a civil servant, meet in the bars of Lagos and Ibadan and try to make sense of the new country.
Death and the King's Horseman
In a Yoruba town in colonial Nigeria during the Second World War, Elesin, the king's horseman, must follow the dead king into the afterlife by ritual suicide, and the British district officer decides to stop him.
The Bonds of Interest
A play in the commedia dell'arte style: two penniless adventurers, the clever Crispín and his master Leandro, arrive in a rich city and talk their way into credit, society and a fortune.
The Cocktail Party
A verse play: at a cocktail party Edward Chamberlayne is trying to explain why his wife has left him, and an uninvited guest who will not give his name begins to rearrange several lives.
No Longer at Ease
Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the Okonkwo of Things Fall Apart, comes home to Lagos from England full of ideals, takes a government job and ends up on trial for taking a bribe.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack calls himself Ernest in town and Algernon visits an invented invalid friend called Bunbury in the country, and their courtship of Gwendolen and Cecily, who both insist on marrying a man named Ernest, collapses into comic confusion.
The Mystic Masseur
Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher in 1940s Trinidad, sets himself up as a masseur and then as a mystic healer.
The Old Devils
Alun Weaver, a television personality who has made a career of being Welsh, comes home to South Wales with his wife Rhiannon, and old friends and old flames gather in the pubs.
Tevye the Dairyman
Tevye, a poor Jewish dairyman in a village in Ukraine, tells the author how his daughters, one after another, break with tradition.
The Finkler Question
Julian Treslove, a former BBC producer, is mugged on his way home from dinner with two old friends, both Jewish, and becomes convinced his attacker took him for a Jew.