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Also by Chinua Achebe:

The Education of a British-Protected Child, October 2009
Hardcover
Anthills of the Savannah, February 1997
Paperback
No Longer at Ease, September 1994
Paperback
Things Fall Apart, September 1994
Paperback (reprint)
A Man of the People, January 1988
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THINGS FALL APART
By: Chinua Achebe

A Novel

Anchor
September 1994
On Sale: September 1, 1994
224 pages
ISBN: 0385474547
EAN: 9780385474542
Paperback (reprint)
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Fiction

Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries.

These perfectly harmonized twin dramas are informed by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul.

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