Autor Chinua Achebe

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of changeOkonkwo is the…

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption.…

Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy,…

He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by othersElectrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.Penguin Modern: fifty new books…

„Skutočná klasika svetovej literatúry... Majstrovské dielo, ktoré inšpirovalo generácie spisovateľov v Nigérii, v Afrike a na celom svete.“ Barack Obama Svet sa rozpadá je prvý z troch románov kritikou oceňovanej Africkej trilógie Chinuu Achebeho. Ide…