Publisher's Synopsis
"Narrated in a free-flowing and easy to access prose. Anyasi's figurative language is rich and vivid...he succeeds in giving us a heart-breaking and mythic tale." - The Nation.
"Beautifully chaotic, Anyasi gives us a front row seat in the astonishing drama and intrigues of the precolonial African Kingdom of Udi." - Bookause Reviews. Sorrows of Udi is an Afro-epic fantasy thriller novel series set in 13th century Igbo kingdom of Udi. A young princess who must abandon a normal life and a forbidden romance with a childhood lover for the goddess duties at the shrine while her best friend plots to become the next queen by all means necessary including seducing all the males in line of succession of the throne, a little witch who broke loose from the custody of the council of witch doctors and threatening to cause havoc on the kingdom, an ambitious witch doctor risking the safety of the kingdom for a chance to be the most powerful witch doctor in Udi history, a psycho serial killer attacking young girls who remind him of his weaknesses and a prince who plans to steal the throne from his father, all weighing in on palace politics while the king and his council have to worry about an army or Arochukwu warriors marching up the hill in their historic quest to expand the Arochukwu Empire. Sorrows of Udi is a multi-plot story now adapted into a comic series and an animated web series which has been screened in several international film festivals in London, New York, Italy, Bulgaria and Nigeria.
