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Things fall apart

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A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world. Barack Obama African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe. Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

Available copies

  • 54 of 56 copies available at Westchester Library System.
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library. (Show)

Current holds

1 current hold with 56 total copies.
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Shelving Location
Barcode Status /
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Chappaqua Library FICTION ACHEBE BOOKCLUB (Text)
Fiction
31005152399723
Available
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Chappaqua Library FICTION ACHEBE BOOKCLUB (Text)
Fiction
31005153753068
Available
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Croton Free Library PB FIC/ACHEBE (Text)
Paperback
31006151716289
Available
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Dobbs Ferry Public Library ACHEBE (Text)
Fiction
31007151431010
Available
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Eastchester Public Library YA PBK FICTION ACHEBE (CLASSIC) (Text)
YA Fiction
31008152302432
Available
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Harrison Public Library YA ACHEBE, C. (Text)
YA Fiction
31010151192830
Available
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Harrison West Harrison Branch Library FICTION ACHEBE, C. (Text)
Fiction
31010250705920
Available
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Hendrick Hudson Free Library ACHEBE, CHINUA (Text)
Fiction
31016151341384
Available
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Irvington Public Library YA PAPERBACK ACHEBE (Text)
YA Paperback
31012154242513
Available
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John C. Hart Memorial Library YA ACHEBE (Text)
YA Fiction
31030152091435
Available
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