Things Fall Apart
- ISBN-10
- 0141186887
- ISBN-13
- 9780141186887
- Category
- Africa
- Pages
- 151
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-01
- Publisher
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Author
- Chinua Achebe
Description
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. 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. A classic in every sense, Chinua Achebe's stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both Africa and world literature.
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