Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 January 2002
Pages
176
ISBN
9780141186887

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

A compelling story of one man’s battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele.

Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance, he can only hurtle towards tragedy.

First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe’s stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature, and has sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages. This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe’s landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community, continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease.

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