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Things Fall Apart

von Chinua Achebe

Fiction History Cultural Studies

ISBN

0385474547

Verlag

Penguin Books

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Classic Literature African Literature Historical Fiction Colonialism Cultural Clash Igbo Culture Nigerian History Postcolonialism Tragedy Identity Tradition vs. Change 19th Century African Trilogy Chinua Achebe World Literature Cultural Heritage Resistance British Colonialism Indigenous Peoples Societal Change Literary Masterpiece Influential Books PBS The Great American Read Fiction Cultural Identity African Experience Pre-Colonial Africa European Colonization Cross-Cultural Encounter Traditional Society Social Commentary

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“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.