Things Fall Apart 50th Anniversary Ed
Things Fall Apart 50th Anniversary Ed
- ISBN 13:
9780385667838
- ISBN 10:
0385667833
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 01/01/2019
- Publisher: Random House Canada
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Summary
“African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison
The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. THINGS FALL APART is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.