The African Trilogy

Informationen zum Autor Born in 1930, Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe is probably black Africa's most widely read novelist. His first work, Things Fall Apart, is regarded as a classic of world literature and has been translated into 40 languages. Introducer Biography: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria and now lives in the United States. She is the author of Purple Hibiscus , Half of a Yellow Sun and The Thing Around Your Neck. Klappentext Born in 1930, Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe is probably black Africa's most widely read novelist. His first work, Things Fall Apart, is regarded as a classic of world literature and has been translated into 40 languages. Introducer Biography: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria and now lives in the United States. She is the author of Purple Hibiscus , Half of a Yellow Sun and The Thing Around Your Neck. Zusammenfassung Includes "Things Fall Apart", "No Longer at Ease", and "Arrow of God". In "Things Fall Apart" the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, 'strong man' and tribal elder in the Nigeria of the 1890s is intertwined with the transformation of traditional Igbo society under the impact of Christianity and colonialism.

Product details

• Authors: Chinua Achebe
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2010
• EAN: 9781841593272
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-327-2
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 211 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Everyman's library; Afrikanische Trilogie; Everyman's Library; Afrikanische Trilogie; Everyman's Library Classics; Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics; Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general