Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Achebe, Chinua, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Igbo (African people)--Fiction.
• British--Nigeria--Fiction.
• Men--Nigeria--Fiction.
• Race relations--Fiction.
• Nigeria--Fiction.
• British.
• Igbo (African people).
• Men.
• Race relations.
• Nigeria.

Genre:

• novels.
• Novels.
• Fiction.
• Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

209 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

• "First Anchor books edition published 1994, Published in Penguin Books 2017"--Title page verso.
• Includes a glossary of Igbo words and phrases.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Cited in:

Anim-Addo, Joan. This is the canon, 6

Other Format:

Online version: Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.

ISBN:

• 9780385474542
• 0385474547
• 9780808592778
• 0808592777

OCLC:

1001278067

Online:

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description