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The novel that made African literature legible to the rest of the world on its own terms. Still on the syllabus, still the best sixty thousand words about the cost of change.
Amara Nwachukwu, Commissioning Editor Heinemann
African classic
Things Fall Apart
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Okonkwo is a strong man in Umuofia, and strength is the only language he has. Then the missionaries arrive, and the thing he has built his whole life around stops being the thing that matters.
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209 pages
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17 Jun 1958
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Things Fall Apart holds its nerve long after most novels would have flinched.
The Lagos Review
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Chinua Achebe published Things Fall Apart in 1958 and changed what the rest of the world thought African literature was. He wrote five novels, several essay collections and a body of criticism still argued about.
His catalogue is published on Bodstore in partnership with his estate.
- Ogidi, Nigeria
- Writes in English, Igbo
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- Bodstore ID
- B0K5AMLW19
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Publication date
- 17 Jun 1958
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385474542
- Print length
- 209 pages
- File size
- 2.5 MB
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Mrs Adeyinka Mrs Adeyinka Verified
I teach this every year
Thirty-one years of teaching it and it has not lost a thing. This edition has the larger type, which my SS2 class appreciates more than they will admit.
Daniel M. Daniel M.
Read it as an adult, not for an exam
I did this for WAEC and hated it. Read it again at thirty-four and understood that Okonkwo was frightened the whole time. Completely different book.
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