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Things Fall Apart
A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. But when he accidentally kills a clansman things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy. First published in 1958 Chinua Achebe's stark coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature and has sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages. This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin
of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease. Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) was raised in the large village of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria and graduated from University College Ibadan. The author of more than twenty books - novels short stories essays and collections of poetry - Achebe received numerous honours from around the world including honourary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities. He was also the recipient of Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement the Nigerian National Merit Award. In 2007 he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. He died in 2013. If you enjoyed Things Fall Apart you might like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness also
available in Penguin Classics. A great book that bespeaks a great brave kind human spirit". (John Updike). "His courage and generosity are made manifest in the work". (Toni Morrison). "The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down". (Nelson Mandela)."
of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease. Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) was raised in the large village of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria and graduated from University College Ibadan. The author of more than twenty books - novels short stories essays and collections of poetry - Achebe received numerous honours from around the world including honourary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities. He was also the recipient of Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement the Nigerian National Merit Award. In 2007 he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. He died in 2013. If you enjoyed Things Fall Apart you might like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness also
available in Penguin Classics. A great book that bespeaks a great brave kind human spirit". (John Updike). "His courage and generosity are made manifest in the work". (Toni Morrison). "The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down". (Nelson Mandela)."
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