Things fall apart /

By: Achebe, ChinuaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Penguin Group, London. 1958Edition: Published as a Penguin classic in 2010Description: 197 p. : 18 cmISBN: 0141023384Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title.
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Main Library
Fiction
F .A177 1958 Available 07363
Total holds: 0

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.