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Things Fall Apart
Contributor(s): Achebe, Chinua (Author)

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ISBN: 0385474547     ISBN-13: 9780385474542
Publisher: Penguin Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1994
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Annotation: This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." -- Nadine Gordimer
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 94013429
Lexile Measure: 890(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (0.45 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - African
- Catalog Heading - Language Arts
- Curriculum Strand - Language Arts
Features: Glossary, Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: New Yorker (The) 05/26/2008 pg. 72
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 49
Ebony 07/01/2012 pg. 39
Entertainment Weekly 04/05/2013 pg. 25
Christianity Today 05/01/2013 pg. 70
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 79634
Reading Level: 6.2   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 8.0
 
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Publisher Description:

"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 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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