upcoming book I bet TRP has read.

[Mark Kohut]

Nobelist Wole Soyinka's first novel in 50 years, *Chronicles From the Land
of the *
*Happiest People On Earth....*

McDonald calls *Chronicles* Soyinka’s magnum opus. “It’s culturally rooted
and scathing in its attitude toward elites, the hoi polloi, everyone,” he
says. “Wole is rambunctious; he has such spirit, such linguistic facility.”

The final draft came to McDonald from agent Melanie Jackson, who has
represented Soyinka since the early 1990s. She says she heard of the new
novel the week before Labor Day 2020 and submitted it in September. “It was
a competitive situation that Pantheon won,” she adds.