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A Fawcett Crest Book published by Ballantine Books, Fifth Printing, 1984.
Really exciting cover that makes me want to read the book (which I will, someday.) Also somewhat ironic as the book itself is in fact falling apart. :-)Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and towering man of letters whose internationally acclaimed fiction helped to revive African literature and to rewrite the story of a continent that had long been told by Western voices, died on Thursday in Boston. He ... Chinua Achebe
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Chinua Achebe Interview
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe (1930 - 2013) wrote "Things Fall Apart" and received global critical acclaim when it was published in 1958. The book chronicles...Chinua Achebe
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Things Fall Apart
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Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. These perfectly harmonized twin dramas are informed by
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