ACHEBE, Chinua.

£5,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Things Fall Apart. First edition of the author's debut book, rapidly established as a foundation text of postcolonial African literature. "The popularity of Things Fall Apart in my own society can be explained simply", commented Achebe. "This was the first time we were seeing ourselves, as autonomous individuals, rather than half-people, or as Conrad would say, 'rudimentary souls'" (cited in Sickels).

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