The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation.

In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York, but it now seems that someone is deter­mined that he not make it there. And neither Dr. Menka nor Duyole knows why, or how close the enemy is, or how powerful.

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corrup­tion. It is a stirring call to arms against the abuse of power from one of our fiercest political activists, who also happens to be a global literary giant.

非洲首位诺贝尔文学奖得主沃莱·索因卡（WoleSoyinka）时隔50年推出新作：这部小说通过呈现信仰与背叛、希望与冷眼、混乱与戏剧性，探讨了权利和贪婪如何腐蚀一个国家的灵魂。

这是一个虚构的故事，在尼日利亚，一个狡猾的企业家正在出售从门卡医生的医院偷来的人体器官，用于仪式活动。门卡医生将这一可怕的消息告诉了他的大学朋友、好朋友、明星工程师和约鲁巴皇族杜约尔·皮坦·佩恩。杜约尔是每个聚会的主角，他即将在纽约的联合国担任一个有声望的职位，但现在看来，有人决定不让他去那里。而门卡医生和杜约尔都不知道原因，也不知道敌人有多近，或者有多强大。

本书既是一部文学作品，又是一部狡猾的侦探小说，严厉控诉着政治和社会腐败。它是文学巨人、政治活动家索因卡发出的反对滥用权力的激动人心的号召。