Chinua Achebe
Paperback | Pages: 209 pages Rating: 3.66 | 270290 Users | 13117 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Things Fall Apart |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The African Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | Okonkwo, Ikemefuna, Ezinma, Nwoye |
| Setting: | Africa Nigeria |
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More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United States. A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.Describe Containing Books Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy #1)
| Title | : | Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Chinua Achebe |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Anchor Books Edition (U.S.) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 209 pages |
| Published | : | October 1994 by Anchor Books (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | New Adult. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.66 From 270290 Users | 13117 ReviewsAssess Containing Books Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy #1)
I found this a smooth, good read. Absorbing, well-paced, engrossing and not at all long--novella length. Sad to say, I don't as a rule expect good reads in those books upheld as modern classics, but this pulled me in. Someone who saw me reading it told me they found the style "Romper Room" and some reviews seem to echo that. I didn't feel that way. I'd call the style "spare"--which befits a writer who when asked which writers he admired and who influenced him named Hemingway along with ConradY'know when you read a novel that is just so stark and bare and depraved that you know it's going to stay with you for a very long time? Yep, it's happened guys. It's happened. This novel ruined me. Ugh it's so great and so horrible. It's what Yeats would describe as a "terrible beauty". Read it, let it wreck you, and bathe in its importance.
Whenever I buy a book for someone as a gift I always include a bookmark, its one of those things I inherited from my parents. As a result of which, whenever I see some nice or quirky or unusual bookmarks I buy them. A few years ago I bought about ten long metal markers on which were engraved the 50 books one 'ought to have read'. Looking down the list I saw this one and ticked it off as one I had read, though I didn't remember it very well. Then a few months ago my book-club opted to read it. As
My son and I had a long talk about this novel the other day, after he finished reading it for an English class. Over the course of the study unit, we had been talking about Chinua Achebe's fabulous juxtaposition of different layers of society, both within Okonkwo's tribe, and within the colonialist community. We had been reflecting on aspects of the tribe that we found hard to understand, being foreign and against certain human rights we take for granted, most notably parts of the strict
Maybe the best thing about Achebe's, Things Fall Apart, is that it give us a look at African culture from the inside, from their perspective, how they viewed the world around them and their place in it. Most of the African novels I've read give the outside view, the colonial or Christian view, which unfairly judges a people and a culture they couldn't possibly understand.The story is set in the Nigerian village of Umuofia in the late 1800's. Since their culture is based on history and tradition,
4 Stars from what I remembered from reading this in high school3 Stars from rereading it nowThis book is a classic that is on a lot of required reading lists. I can understand that as it gives a fictional glimpse into the Westernization of Africa. A topic like this is very heavy, controversial, and important because of this, a tale in this genre is going to have a big impact and will easily make its way to must read status.When I read it in high school, I think I enjoyed it more than now
The drums were still beating, persistent and unchanging. Their sound was no longer a separate thing from the living village. It was like the pulsation of its heart. It throbbed in the air, in the sunshine, and even in the trees, and filled the village with excitement. - Chinua Achebe, Things Fall ApartThis is a book of many contrasts; colonialism and traditional culture, animism and Christianity, the masculine and the feminine, and the ignorant and the aware (although who is who depends on whos
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