Things Fall Apart

<p><b>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'</b><br><b><br>A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, <i>Things Fall Apart </i>is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change</b><br><br>Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy. <br><br>First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature, and has sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages. This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community, continued in <i>Arrow of God</i> and <i>No Longer at Ease</i>.<br><br>'His courage and generosity are made manifest in the work' Toni Morrison<br><br>'The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down' Nelson Mandela<br><br>'A great book, that bespeaks a great, brave, kind, human spirit' John Updike<br><br>With an Introduction by Biyi Bandele</p>