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Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart

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Sachgebiet:	Belletristik
Inhalt:	Okonkwo, a member of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria at the end of the nineteenth century, is a man of power and substance. He reveres his family ancestors and gods and unquestioningly upholds the laws of the tribe. Within his lifetime he sees the gradual decay of all he holds most valuable, a decline hastened by the arrival of white men with new laws and a new god.
Verlag:	Heinemann Educational Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr, -ort:	1958 and later, Oxford
ISBN:	0 435 12162 6
Auflage:	reprint
Bemerkung:	Chinua Achebe was born on 16 November 1930 at Ogidi in Nigeria. His father was in charge of the village church and on weekdays taught at the village Christian missionary school, which his children attended. From it in 1944 Chiua won a scholarship to the Government secondary school at Umuhia. Four years later with another scholarship (this time medicine) he went to the new University College at Ibadan. Soon realising he had little interest in science, he changed over to reading English, History and Religious Studies..... Between 1958 and 1964 he wrote four novels, of which "Things Fall Apart" is the first. Its subject is the arrival at the end of the nineteenth century of the white man and the impact it has on the closely knit society of the Nigerian Ibo tribe. As Obierika says accusingly, "Now he has won our brothers, our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart." The central figure is Okonkwo, a famous wrestler, a prosperous farmer with three wives, and a natural leader of whom great things were expected. In simple and moving language Achebe tells of the series of events which led to Okonkwo Žs being "cast out of his clan like a fish on to a dry sandy beach, panting"; of his pride and fear and anger, of his reckless courage against the white man, and his final downfall. A novel of integrity and restraint, on publication it was widely acclaimed by critics in Africa, Europe and America. it has been translated into Germen, Italian, Spanish, Slovene, Russian, Hebrew, Czech, and Hungarian, and it is already regarded as a classic of modern African writing. (source: Introductory Note from Ian Serraillier)
Sprache:	English

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