Things Fall Apart

Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0307743853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “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 Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

Things Fall Apart

Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0385474547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Author: Isidore Okpewho
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195147642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. The essays collected in this casebook explore the work's artistic, multicultural, and global significance from a variety of critical perspectives.

Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Author: Ode Ogede
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826490840
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
A Reader's Guide to one of the best known African novels, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

Author: Fred Heiser
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595232795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
The unthinkable happens when nuclear brinksmanship spirals off into to Armageddon. Billions die as governments disintegrate, great cities are annihilated and deeply laid plans to seize unlimited power swing into action. Tom McArthur: Once a carefree individualist, he was coaxed into a position of influence and leadership by unexpected opportunity and kept there by his sense of honor. He finds himself far from home and family, separated by hundreds of miles of impossible terrain, gangs of armed bandits and a hostile government. Lynn, his wife: Beautiful and intelligent, strong willed and voluptuous, she resents Tom's abandonment of her and their children for a distant political career. Now, with nothing but her courage, wits and willpower to work with, she must fight to keep herself and her children alive. Lance: Young, handsome and lonely, trained as the ultimate warrior, he drove himself into poverty and alcohol with the memory of an unspeakable evil he was party to. Will he find love and redemption or destroy those around him? Who will live? Who will die? What will emerge when things fall apart?

Things Fall Apart

Author: Kenneth McIntosh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1422297330
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Maeve Murphy has always been . . . different. Could it be the amusement park tragedy that she witnessed as a little girl? Now her childhood trauma is haunting Maeve, or is it a real ghost visiting her at night? Worse, someone is trying to kill her. She'll need to use all her skills, and descend into her worst nightmares, to solve a cold-case mystery and save her own life. Crime Scene Club book number ten explores forensic engineering and sends readers on a non-stop roller-coaster thrill-ride.

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Author: Isidore Okpewho
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195147634
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1604135816
Category : Igbo (African people) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
Things Fall Apart, set in Nigeria about a century ago, is widely regarded as Chinua Achebe's masterpiece. Considered one of the most broadly read African novels, Achebe's work responded to the two-dimensional caricatures of Africans that often dominated Western literature. This invaluable new edition of the study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of this classic novel.

Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart

Author: Harry Turtledove
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451240553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466

Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove brings his post-apocalyptic disaster trilogy to a startling conclusion... An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere, forever altering the climate of the entire continent. Nothing grows from the tainted soil. Stalled and stilled machines function only as statuary. People have been scraping by on the excess food and goods produced before the eruption. But supplies are running low. Natural resources are dwindling. And former police officer Colin Ferguson knows that time is running out for his family—and for humanity…

When Things Fall Apart

Author: Nora Dudwick
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821350676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
This study uses quantitative and qualitative research methods to document the experiences of people in Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan struggling to cope with the dramatic changes in lifestyle and economic conditions following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It demonstrates how poverty in the region differs from that experienced in other parts of the world, and looks at how cultural and institutional barriers have hindered attempts to improve these problems. It also examines the links between poverty, gender and ethnicity, and seeks to convey the psychological impact of poverty, as well as its social and economic effects.