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    Audiobook6 hours

    Things Fall Apart

    Written by Chinua Achebe

    Narrated by Peter Francis James

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    About this audiobook

    With over eight million copies in print world wide, Achebe’s work is a definitive novel in African literature. Filled with powerful language and finely drawn characters, Things Fall Apart also shimmers with the sounds and sights of village life. Okonkwo is born into poverty, with a wastrel for a father. Driven by ambition, he works tirelessly to gain the prosperity of many fields and wives and prestige in his village. But he is harsh as well as diligent. As he sees the traditions of his people eroded by white missionaries and government officials, he lashes out in anger. Things Fall Apart traces the growing friction between village leaders and Europeans determined to save the heathen souls of Africa. But its hero, a noble man who is driven by destructive forces, speaks a universal tongue.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 1997
    ISBN9781449810184
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      A classic by one of the very best, Chinua Achebe