Things Fall Apart
By: by Chinua Achebe.
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books edition, 14th printing
Publisher: Fawcett Crest
Published: 1988-12
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780449208106
Copyright date: 1959
Subjects: Igbo (African people) -- Fiction
Description: First published in England in 1958, THINGS FALL APART is Chinua Achebe's first and most famous novel, a classic of modern African writing. It is the story of a "strong' mand whose life is dominated by fear and anger, a powerful and moving narrative that critics have compared with classic Greek tragedy. Written with remarkable economy and subtle irony, it is uniquely and richly African and at the same time reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.

THINGS FALL APART is no less successful as a social document, dramatizing traditional Ibo life in its first encounter with colonialism and Christianity at the turn of this century. Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel vividly recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming of the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways.

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Notes: Includes glossary of Ibo words and phrases.