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Things fall apart

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Title:
Things fall apart
Author:
Achebe, Chinua.
ISBN:
9780141186887
Personal Author:
Achebe, Chinua.
Publication Information:
London : Penguin in association with Heinemann African Writers Series, 1996.
Physical Description:
xiii, 151 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
Penguin classics

Penguin classics.
General Note:
Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1958.
Abstract:
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. 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.
Subject Term:
Igbo (African people) -- Fiction.

Wrestlers -- Nigeria -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Nigeria -- Race relations -- Fiction.

Nigeria -- Colonization -- Fiction.
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