| Titre : | Things Fall Apart | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Chinua Achebe, Auteur ; Biyi Bandele, Auteur | | Editeur : | Penguin Books | | Année de publication : | 2015 | | Collection : | Penguin classics | | Importance : | 151P | | Présentation : | ill | | Format : | 15 x 17 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-14-118688-7 | | Prix : | 12,50 € | | Langues : | Français (fre) | | Résumé : | Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy. A classic in every sense, Chinua Achebe's stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature.
First published in 1958, it was sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages, and remains an arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people. |
Things Fall Apart [texte imprimé] / Chinua Achebe, Auteur ; Biyi Bandele, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Penguin Books, 2015 . - 151P : ill ; 15 x 17 cm. - ( Penguin classics) . ISBN : 978-0-14-118688-7 : 12,50 € Langues : Français ( fre) | Résumé : | Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy. A classic in every sense, Chinua Achebe's stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature.
First published in 1958, it was sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages, and remains an arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people. |
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