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020			_a9780141186887 _cRs. 399.00
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100			_aAchebe, Chinua
245			_aThings fall apart _cChinua Achebe; with an introduction by Biyi Bandele
246			_aChinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
260			_aNew Delhi _bPenguin Books India _c2001
300			_a151 p.
490			_aPenguin Classics
505			_aAbout the book: A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance, he can only hurtle towards tragedy. First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature, and has sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages. This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community, continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease. Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) was raised in the large village of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria, and graduated from University College, Ibadan.
650			_aIgbo (African people)—Fiction
650			_aNigeria—Social life and customs—Fiction
650			_aColonialism—Africa—Fiction
650			_aTraditional societies—Fiction
650			_aPostcolonial literature
700			_aBandele, Biyi
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