'The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down'- Nelson Mandela
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.
Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) was raised in the large village of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria,and graduated from University College,Ibadan. The author of more than twenty books - novels,short stories,essays and collections of poetry - Achebe received numerous honours from around the world,including honourary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities. He was also the recipient of Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement,the Nigerian National Merit Award. In 2007,he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. He died in 2013.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141186887Number of pages: 176Weight: 134 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 10 mm
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'A great book,that bespeaks a great,brave,kind,human spirit'- John Updike
'His courage and generosity are made manifest in the work'- Toni Morrison
'The first novel in English which spoke from the interior of an African character,rather than portraying the African as exotic,as the white man would see him'- Wole Soyinka
"The Founding Father of the African novel in English" - The Guardian
'The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down'- Nelson Mandela
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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