by Chinua Achebe · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141186887
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«Things Fall Apart» is the classic novel by Chinua Achebe, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (176 pages, in English).
The novel follows Okonkwo, a respected warrior and wrestler from an Igbo village in late 19th-century Nigeria. After an exile that takes him away from his community, he returns to find that missionaries and colonial authorities have transformed the world he knew. Achebe thus portrays the clash between traditional African culture and the arrival of British colonialism.
First installment of Chinua Achebe's African Trilogy, originally published in 1958; this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Biyi Bandele.
Recommended for those seeking African literature and historical fiction, as well as for readers interested in modern classics in English.
Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains the most widely studied, translated, and read African novel. Along with Things Fall Apart, his No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964) complete the "African Trilogy". Later novels include A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Achebe is often referred to as the "father of modern African literature", although he vigorously rejected the characterization.
