Things Fall Apart

Name: Things Fall Apart - Penguin Random House South Africa
SKU: 9780141186887
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Chinua Achebe

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change

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.

First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world...

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.