The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war,also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years,until he produced this towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events. A marriage of history,remembrance,poetry and vivid first-hand observation,There Was a Country is a work of wisdom and compassion from one of the great voices of our age.
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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241959206Number of pages: 352Weight: 261 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 20 mm
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It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer's brilliant mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literatureEngrossing...an elegy from a master storyteller who has witnessed the undulating fortunes of a nation ...his strongest expressions are his poems,scattered between chapters,offering affecting interludesMatchless...what a man; what a lifePart-history,part-memoir,(Achebe's) moving account of the war is laced with anger,but there is also an abiding tone of regret for what Nigeria might have been without conflict and mismanagementA blend of historical overview,personal memoir and political manifesto...fascinating
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe is the author of more than twenty books,including poetry,short stories,novels and essays. He remains best-known for his first novel,Things Fall Apart,which became an international bestseller and - having been translated into more than 57 languages - made Achebe the most translated African author of all time. Acclaimed for his literature for much of his lifetime,in 2007 he won the Man Booker International Prize. He died on 22nd March 2013.
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