A man discovers at his father’s funeral that the father was Anansi, the West African trickster god, and that he has a brother who inherited all of the charm.
It is a comedy, which separates it from the book it loosely follows. The structure is closer to farce than fantasy, with the supernatural material arranged around a man being slowly humiliated.
The audiobook with Lenny Henry is the version people recommend and they are right.
Read April 2016.