The African trilogy : Things fall apart, No longer at ease, Arrow of God / Chinua Achebe ; with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Publication details: New York : Everyman's Library, 2010.Description: xix, 513 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781841593272
- 9780307592705
- 823.914 22
- PR9387.9.A3 A6 2010
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | ACH | Available | 064228 |
"This is a Borzoi Book"-- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Things fall apart (©1958) -- No longer at ease (©1960) -- Arrow of God (©1964).
Classic fiction. Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who òpened the magic casements of African fiction' for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary of the publication of his ground-breaking Things Fall Apart, Everyman republish Achebe's first and most famous novel alongside No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God, under the collective title The African Trilogy. In Things Fall Apart the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, s̀trong 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. In No Longer at Ease, Okonkwo's grandson, Obi, educated in England, returns to a civil-service job in colonial Lagos, only to clash with the ruling elite to which he now believes he belongs. Arrow of God is set in the 1920s and explores the conflict from the two points of view.
