Things Fall Apart

<b>A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria across Africa and around the world. <b>--</b>Barack Obama <p/>African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe. --Toni Morrison <p/>A magical writer - one of the greates of the twentieth century. --Margaret Atwood <p/>Named one of America's most-loved novels by PBS's <i>The Great American Read</i></b><i> <p/>Things Fall Apart</i> 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 <i>Things Fall Apart </i>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. <p/>With more than twenty million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages <i>Things Fall Apart </i>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.