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020			_a0385474547 [newsprint]
020			_a9480384474542 [newsprint]
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC
100			_aAchebe, Chinua _eauthor.
245			_aThings fall apart / _cChinua Achebe.
260			_aNew York : _bAnchor Books, _cc1994.
300			_a209 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_a"The classic bestseller with more than 2 million copies in print"
520			_a“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama. “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. 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 andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to 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.
521			_aAdult
541			_xMindajao, Lynie _yCollege of Teacher Education _zEducation : English
546			_aEnglish
600	1	0	_aAchebe, Chinua. _tThings fall apart.
650		0	_aIgbo (African people) in literature.
651		0	_aNigeria _xIn literature.
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