Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Of all the books I have read and written about, this stands apart. From the very first chapter I had no difficulty in understanding why is this book tuoted as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time by numerous lists. If you haven't come across this yet, make this your next buy. This is the best book I have read so far and I doubt if at all I would ever happen to read something that would match this.
The novel is considered to be the first and most serious contribution of African Literature. Has to be...
The novel fundamentally shakes the Western notion that Africa has no history of its own by presenting the original Africa culture and its value through a heroic warrior and statesman of an African village. Okonkwo, the protagonist, is a self made man, much respected for his rise from nothingness to one of the most admired men of their time. The novel tells the story of the lives of the people before and after the British onslaught.
Above all, Achebe gives and insight to the way of life of his people through this story set in the early 1900s and the value of what the outsiders considered as barbaric or pagan.
A remarkably well told story, undoubtedly unmatchable by any other book in the world literature.
Leave your Marquez or Toni Morrison or Kundera for a while. You miss this; you miss the finest of them all.
Here I stop and let the book speak for itself.
The novel is considered to be the first and most serious contribution of African Literature. Has to be...
The novel fundamentally shakes the Western notion that Africa has no history of its own by presenting the original Africa culture and its value through a heroic warrior and statesman of an African village. Okonkwo, the protagonist, is a self made man, much respected for his rise from nothingness to one of the most admired men of their time. The novel tells the story of the lives of the people before and after the British onslaught.
Above all, Achebe gives and insight to the way of life of his people through this story set in the early 1900s and the value of what the outsiders considered as barbaric or pagan.
A remarkably well told story, undoubtedly unmatchable by any other book in the world literature.
Leave your Marquez or Toni Morrison or Kundera for a while. You miss this; you miss the finest of them all.
Here I stop and let the book speak for itself.
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posted by Dew Drops at 12:55 AM
4 Comments:
see...this is the problem...you shouldnt review a book like this...now i'll have to check this one out ASAP...i was stuck with cholera because you wrote such a review. but shud tell you cholera was amazing...i liked it better than 100 yrs...maybe i've just matured enough for marquez and now i'm enjoyin it...cholera was really good :)
so here comes another one...chinua achebe...what kinda name is that...did this guy get a booker or nobel or something...sounds familiar
no booker or nobel. he is a nigerian writer. chk wiki and these links.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1061037,00.html
http://nths.newtrier.k12.il.us/academics/english/homepage/top100.htm
thank god you liked Cholera ;)))
in our CBSE english textbook back in 9th or 10th, had a story short by Chinua Achebe, heard of him then first... think he is the one of the greatest novelist Africa has ever produced maybe along with Gordimer or Coetzee... your review causes problems indeed, this will have to wait sadly :(
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