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Things Fall Apart 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, Things Fall Apart explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political and religious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to the 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."Upon his death, Nadine Gordimer, who was one of the Man Booker International judges who awarded Achebe the prize, wrote in The Guardian that Things Fall Apart ‘is the founding creator of modern African imaginative literature"'." - The 2007 Man Booker International Prize JudgesChinua Achebe Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe is probably bl

Who reads Things Fall Apart : A Novel?

Author

Chinua Achebe

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Penguin

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299015951

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (12,531 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14