Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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Penguin Classics
Paperback : 01 Nov 2001

£8.99

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Things Fall Apart is one of the modern age's defining books - the book that marked African independence and in one leap created a powerful, vivid Nigerian literature. An incomparable story, told in a way that still seems radical and extraordinary, Things Fall Apart is essential reading.

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Customer Review: 24 September 2005

Reviewer: Jessica

highly enjoyable. It offers deep, intelligent perception of African society. Successful in every aspect.

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'The first novel in English which spoke from the interior of an African character, rather than portraying the African as exotic, as the white man would see him'
Wole Soyinka