Things Fall Apart [electronic resource]
Achebe, Chinua2013
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Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous throughout West Africa. Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. 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. Chinua Achebe's stark novel reshaped both African and world literature. 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.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Classics, 2013
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1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Penguin Book of the British Short Story
ISBN:
9780141393964
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English
BRN:
2548292