My mercedes is bigger than yours

"To the young man, Onuma, this car--this Jaguar the color of gold--was the embodiment of a dream. . .He was the gifted and lucky son, the one who had gone to the university and had got a job as public relations officer in a foreign-run firm. . .Who, in his village, was equipped to understand his achievement? Ah, but now they could see it. . ." This satirical novel about Onuma's return home and the tragic fate which there befell his car, plunges us into both city and rural life in Nigeria--into the realities of family relationships, business and politics.