Monday, September 13, 2010

50 Years of Things Falling Apart


With his masterpiece, “Things Fall Apart,” one of the first works of fiction to present African village life from an African perspective, Achebe began the literary reclamation of his country’s history from generations of colonial writers. Published fifty years ago — a new edition has just appeared, from Anchor —it has been translated into fifty languages and has sold more than ten million copies.

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