Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)

Description:
Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous throughout West Africa. 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. Chinua Achebe's stark novel reshaped both African and world literature. This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community, continued in 'Arrow of God' and 'No Longer at Ease'.

Review:
'The first novel in English which spoke from the interior of an African character, rather than portraying the African as exotic, as the white man would see him' Wole Soyinka 'The Founding Father of the African novel in English' - The Guardian

Author Biography:
Chinua Achebe (born in 1930) was educated at the University College of Ibadan, Nigeria. In total he has written over twenty books - novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry - including Things Fall Apart (1958), Arrow of God (1964); Beware, Soul Brother and Other Poems (1971), winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; Anthills of the Savannah (1987), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays (1988); and Home and Exile (2000). He is now a professor at Bard College, New York. Biyi Bandele is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He was the Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Churchill College, University College Cambridge in 2000-2001. He was born and raised in Nigeria, and now lives in London.