EAN: 9780385474542

CHINUA ACHEBE - GEBRAUCHT THINGS FALL APART A N...

“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  "A magical
writer—one of the greates of the twentieth century." —Margaret Atwood  Named one of America's
most-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 twenty 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.

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