Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive. and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman. things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo retums from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. Wrth his world thrown radicalty off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy.First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's stark. coony ironic noel reshaped both African and world literature, and has sold over milhon 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 chronichng the fate of one Afncan community, continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease
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Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
von Chinua Achebe
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive. and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman. things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo retums from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. Wrth his world thrown radicalty off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy.First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's stark. coony ironic noel reshaped both African and world literature, and has sold over milhon 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 chronichng the fate of one Afncan community, continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease
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