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Things fall apart

Chinua Achebe (Author)
First published in 1959, 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
Print Book, English, 2017
Penguin Books, New York, New York, 2017
novels
209 pages ; 21 cm
9780385474542, 9780808592778, 0385474547, 0808592777
1001278067
"First Anchor books edition published 1994, Published in Penguin Books 2017"--Title page verso
Includes a glossary of Igbo words and phrases