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Things Fall Apart: Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Things Fall Apart: Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Achebe, Chinua
Appiah, Kwame Anthony

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN10: 0679446230
ISBN13: 9780679446231
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Oct 17 1995
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
The most widely read book in modern African literature, presented here in stunning hardcover, tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around a fearless Igbo warrior in Nigeria in the late 1800s, before and after the European colonization of the continent.

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.

The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. THINGS FALL APART is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

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