cover image Isara: A Voyage Around ""Essay""

Isara: A Voyage Around ""Essay""

Wole Soyinka. Vintage Books USA, $13 (262pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73246-4

Soyinka introduces his family and acquaintances, and shows how traditions are reshaped to fit modern times. ``This semi-fictionalized, multigenerational family saga by the Nigerian novelist-poet-dramatist Nobel laureate is rich with the sights, sounds and textures of his native land under colonial rule,'' praised PW. (Jan.)