Things Fall Apart
Edition: 1st Anchor Books edition
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780307743855
Copyright date: 1959
First sentence: Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. He was called the Cat because his back would never touch the earth. It was this man that Okonkwo threw in a fight which the old men agreed was one of the fiercest since the founder of their town engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights.