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"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Achebe, Chinua
- ISBN: 9780385474542
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.70
- Number Of Pages: 224
- Publication Year: 1994
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Open your eyes
Paris A. - 6 years agoWow, as a non POC, this opened my eyes to a culture of people I am unfamiliar with. Yes, this is a fabricated society, but the author, Achebe, took a deep dive into Africa and created a community that mirrors many real African tribes. The way the "man" came into this town and destroyed the history was a jaw dropping moment. I feel more awakened and I can take this new understand of accepting cultures into my life. This is a life changing book- please read. BTW I have the sequel book in my hands now. #Summerreading
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Very well written novel
Genna P. - 6 years agoThis novel goes into depth on how an African village is being taken over by Christians. This novel shows the struggles the father has with change that comes really fast into his village. This is a really good novel and it gives insight that those in the first world countries would never be able to experience. #SummerReading
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Griping story of the changing of the times...
Ben E. - 8 years 1 month agoThis is the story of Okonkwo and his peoples in Africa. Clans of families and families of clans that have lived frozen in time until generational and foreign influences change everything. Life is very straight forward yet mysterious in Okonkwo's world. It can be both magical and frighteningly harsh while at times comforting like a child's verse. One day the clans may be celebrating the harvest and peace is declared across the land in recognition of nature's generosity and the next day a war could be declared in which a severed human may be sported as a true sign of supremacy. In the changing of the times, some see it as a new beginning and the story could go on of course yet for others it's the end of the old ways and everything is being lost. This story has the capacity to reach everyone and relate to your own human experience in change and aging. If ever there were a book to pull at your heartstrings and whisper thoughts of going to Africa and getting lost, this is it. The Book has a very sobering ending and does touch on the mindsets of imperialism and first world ideology versus third.
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