ACHEBE, Chinua.

£1,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

No Longer at Ease. First edition, first impression, continuing the author's hugely influential "African trilogy", introduced by Things Fall Apart (1958) and concluding with Arrow of God (1964). The Nigerian novelist was among the first writers of literature to present African village life from an African perspective.Published in the year of Nigeria's independence, the work "powerfully exposed the difficulty of navigating a world where one is expected to partake of western secular education and all the values and privileges that comes with it, and still be hostage to the commanding beliefs of one's own culture. It is a heart-wrenching account of the grandchild of the main character in Things Fall Apart, who joins the Nigerian colonial civil service after receiving a British education but struggles to escape the conflicting mores of his family - a tragic modern protagonist with a foot in both camps" (Malik).

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