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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
“African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Things
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
[1989], ©1966
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
By the renowned author of Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.
4) Arrow of God
Author
Language
English
Description
When Things Fall Apart ends, colonial rule has been introduced to Umuofia, and the character of the nation, its values, freedoms, religious and socio-political foundations have substantially and irrevocably been altered. Arrow of God, the second novel in Chinua Achebe's The African Trilogy, moves the historical narrative forward. This time, the action revolves around Ezeulu, the headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, which is worshiped by the six...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 327
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xix, 513 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects three of the author's novels, all inspired by the tragedies faced by the Igbo people during the European colonization of Africa.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xi, 562 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who "opened the magic casements of African fiction." The African Trilogy--comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease--is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 597 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Things Fall Apart is one of the most widely read African novels ever published. It is written by one of Nigeria s leading novelists, Chinua Achebe. Set in the Ibo village of Umuofia, Things Fall Apart recounts a stunning moment in African history - its colonization by Britain. The novel, first published in 1958, has by today sold over 8 million copies, been translated into at least forty-five languages, and earned Achebe the somewhat misleading and...
12) Another Africa
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Physical Desc
122 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 315 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An anthology of short stories by African writers from a dozen countries. The subjects range from war and politics to problems with domestics and African humor. Some stories were written in English, others are translations from Arabic, French and Portuguese. All were written in the latter part of this century.
Publisher
Pearson Longman
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
xiii, 926 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of fifty-two short stories, covering a wide range of international authors and offering insight into the art of short story, including works by Chinua Achebe, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yukio Mishima, Eudora Welty, among others.
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