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Fiction · First published 1958

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua AchebeNigeria

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Okonkwo is a proud and feared leader in the Igbo village of Umuofia — until colonial rule and Christian missionaries arrive and his world begins to come apart. The founding novel of modern African literature.

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Chinua Achebe

Nigeria

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