Rank 42 of 100
Things Fall Apart
Synopsis
Okonkwo has spent his life becoming the opposite of his gentle, indebted father: a wrestler, a farmer, a man the clan respects and fears. Achebe sets his fall inside the arrival of British missionaries and courts, and refuses both nostalgia and the colonial story that Igbo life was waiting to be explained by outsiders.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1958
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nigeria
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Literary, Historical
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Postcolonial
- Series
- African Trilogy
- Length
- About 209 pages
- Reported copies
- About 20 million copies
- Kind
- Fiction