9780385474542-0385474547-Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

ISBN-13: 9780385474542
ISBN-10: 0385474547
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 209 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780385474542
ISBN-10: 0385474547
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 209 pages

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Things Fall Apart (ISBN-13: 9780385474542 and ISBN-10: 0385474547), written by authors Chinua Achebe, was published by Penguin Books in 1994. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Things Fall Apart (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.59.

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“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” Barack Obama

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read


Things Fall Apart
is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.

With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

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