Bibliograph

Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe

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Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

890L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Things fall apart

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

690008769

Responsibility statement

Chinua Achebe

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 6.2, 8, 8, 79634

Summary

[This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ... Uniquely ... African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back coverThings Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a zstrong many of an Igbo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace in his world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of that world when European missionaries arrive in his village. Things Fall Apart forms one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments we have to the modern African experience as seen from within. Achebe does not merely capture life in an African village before the arrival of colonialism, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our own

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