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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Description:
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
About The Author
Chinua Achebe was a poet, professor and a critic. His most critically-appreciated work was Things Fall Apart, which is one the most widely read post-colonial novels. He belonged to the Igbo community of Nigeria and his writings reflected the customs and ways of the Igbo community. His other important works are No Longer At Ease (1960), Arrow Of God (1964), A Man Of The People (1966) and Anthills Of The Savannah (1987).
Skryf Review
Good Read
The act of writing is strangely powerful, almost magical: to take ideas and put them into a lasting, physical form that can persist outside of the mind. For a culture without a written tradition, a libraries are not great structures of stone full of objects–instead, stories are curated within flesh, locked up in a cage of bone. To know the story, you must go to the storyteller. In order for that story to persist through time, it must be retold and rememorized by successive generations.
If you are interested in African culture, historical fiction, good writing, well here is your book.