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The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Uzodinma Iweala (Introduction by); Chinua Achebe (Contribution by)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin African Writers Ser.
A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. The River Between explores life ...Show more
There Was a Country A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Chinua Achebe, the author of "Things Fall Apart", is a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. "There Was a Country" is his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also known as t ...Show more
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years, until he produced this towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events. A marriage of history, remembrance, p ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Things Fall Apart" tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the firs ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w ...Show more
Things Fall Apart (Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. ...Show more