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Author:
Achebe, Chinua, author.
Title:
Book club kit. Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe.
Publisher:
Iowa City Public Library,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
10 books, 1 discussion guide ; in a canvas tote bag (18 in x 13 in x 5 in)
Subject:
Igbo (African people)--Fiction.
British--Nigeria--Fiction.
Men--Nigeria--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Nigeria--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Notes:
"Things fall apart" (209 pages ; 21 cm). Published in paperback by Penguin Books, 2017. Originally published in 1959. Kit assembled by the Iowa City Public Library. Title and statement of responsibility from book title page. Book Club Kits provide 10 copies of books and discussion information packaged in a convenient canvas bag. Kits check out for six weeks. To find a list of all titles for which kits are available, search by "Book club kits".
Summary:
Things Fall Apart--the first volume of Chinua Achebe's masterpiece The African Trilogy--tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Igbo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace in his world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of that world when European missionaries arrive in his village. Things Fall Apart forms one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments we have to the modern African experience as seen from within. Achebe does not merely capture life in an African village before the arrival of colonialism, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our own.
ISBN:
0385474547
9780385474542
Locations:
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

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