"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." --Barack Obama

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 09/01/1994
ISBN: 9780385474542
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d

Review Citations: New Yorker (The) 05/26/2008 pg. 72
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 49
Ebony 07/01/2012 pg. 39
Entertainment Weekly 04/05/2013 pg. 25
Christianity Today 05/01/2013 pg. 70

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 79634 / Things Fall Apart
Reading Level: 6.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 8