Things Fall Apart
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. (30)
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780385474542
Copyright date: 1959
Description: More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United States.

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.
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