"Anthills of the Savannah" by Chinua Achebe

"Anthills of the Savannah" does a fantastic job of jockeying attention from character to character as Achebe hands over the first-person narration from chapter to chapter. This book tells the story or a country on the tail of a revolution and some of the meglomania that can ostracize a new leader from those that know them best. The insight was incredible, believable and, seemingly from actual events. On another note, the transitions from intelligently composed narrative into, for the unfamiliar, a seemingly impossible to decipher dialect, the author builds a world that feels so other, and at the same time, universal. Though it shouldn't be comprehensible, it hits home. What a fantastic and important writer.