No Longer at Ease

Name: No Longer at Ease - Penguin Random House South Africa
SKU: 9780141191553
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Chinua Achebe

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Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl - to the disapproval of his parents - he sinks further into emotional and financial turmoil. The lure of easy money becomes harder to refuse, and Obi becomes caught in a trap he cannot escape.

Showing a man lost in cultural limbo, and a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment, No Longer at Ease concludes Achebe's remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the...

About the Author

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe was a prominent and prolific writer, poet, professor and literary critic, renowned for novels that described the effects of Western customs and values on traditional African society. He is best known for Things Fall Apart (1958), a novel that has sold more than ten million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than fifty languages. Achebe is the winner of numerous honours and awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction, honorary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities, and Nigeria’s highest award for intellectual achievement, the Nigerian National Merit Award. Chinua Achebe's book Girls At War was published by Penguin Books SA as part of the Penguin African Writers Series.