Things Fall Apart by Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart by Achebe, Chinua

Things Fall Apart

"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers...
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Author: Chinua Achebe
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Things Fall Apart by Achebe, Chinua

Things Fall Apart

$28.31
Things Fall Apart by Achebe, Chinua

Things Fall Apart

$28.31
Author: Chinua Achebe
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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

"African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe." --Toni Morrison

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.

Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/01/1994
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780385474542

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.2
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 79634 / Things Fall Apart


Review Citation(s):
New Yorker (The) 05/26/2008 pg. 72
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 49
Ebony 07/01/2012 pg. 39
Entertainment Weekly 04/05/2013 pg. 25
Christianity Today 05/01/2013 pg. 70

About the Author
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) was born in Nigeria. Widely considered to be the father of modern African literature, he is best known for his masterful African Trilogy, consisting of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease. The trilogy tells the story of a single Nigerian community over three generations from first colonial contact to urban migration and the breakdown of traditional cultures. He is also the author of Anthills of the Savannah, A Man of the People, Girls at War and Other Stories, Home and Exile, Hopes and Impediments, Collected Poems, The Education of a British-Protected Child, Chike and the River, and There Was a Country. He was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and, for more than fifteen years, was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. Achebe was the recipient of the Nigerian National Merit Award, Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement. In 2007, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement.
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