Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - 3 months ago
Views - 4
Ships From - Texas
Est. Publication Date - Nov 1998
Seller Description
THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. 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.
Additional Information
Things Fall Apart: A Novel
ISBN: 9780385474542
Publisher Description
The contemporary African writer's classic novel depicting the destruction of traditional tribal life by the white man
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