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Author
Series
African trilogy (Chinua Achebe) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1959, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Searching for an engineering job that will enable him to support his family, recent Nigerian university graduate Kingsley turns in desperation to his uncle, who runs a successful e-mail scam company and who reveals unexpected consequences for the cash loan Kingsley has reluctantly accepted.
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xxi, 597 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Things Fall Apart is one of the most widely read African novels ever published. It is written by one of Nigeria s leading novelists, Chinua Achebe. Set in the Ibo village of Umuofia, Things Fall Apart recounts a stunning moment in African history - its colonization by Britain. The novel, first published in 1958, has by today sold over 8 million copies, been translated into at least forty-five languages, and earned Achebe the somewhat misleading and...
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