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Achebe, Chinua,

Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe. - First Anchor books edition - 209 pages ; 21 cm

First published in 1958, 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.

Young Adult.



ISBN: 0385474547 9780385474542 0679446230 9780679446231 9780072435184 0072435186

Standard No.: 9780385474542

LCCN: 94013429

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: BA25330530 JP-ToKJK

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Igbo (African people)--Fiction.
British--Nigeria--Fiction.
Men--Nigeria--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Nigeria--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR9387.9.A3 / T5 1994

Dewey Class. No.: 823