Things Fall Apart

,

Azal biguna, 153 orrialde

English hizkuntza

2004ko abu. 30a(e)an Penguin Books(e)n argitaratua.

OpenLibraryn ikusi

5 izar (2 berrikuspen)

Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy.

A classic in every sense, Chinua Achebe's stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature. First published in 1958, it has sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages, and remains an arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people.

33 edizio

(e)k Chinua Achebe(r)en Things Fall Apart liburuaren kritika egin du (Heinemann African Writers Series; Red Classics)

Things do fall apart indeed - a great book and a great, sorrowful story

Baloraziorik ez

This is great African literature, and it's great literature.

It's an adventure book, to me, that punches you in the stomach. And if you don't feel the punch, it just means that you're not able to read.

This book called me from the bookstore shelf a few times in the last months. It's the huge bookstore in Roma Termini train station, and the copy I finally bought last week was always the same one. I did not know this author, nor I heard about this book. I'm sure many will read this as a piece of "african literature", and even if it is, I believe it is foolishness to treat it as such, just like it feels strange when I hear talk about the Divine Comedy as a "european masterpiece". It's a great book, with a great, sorrowful story, full of people and lives.

avatar for mikelgs

baloratu du

5 izar

Zerrendak