{"product_id":"9780385474542","title":"Things Fall Apart","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eBarack Obama \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A magical writer—one of the greates of the twentieth century.\" —Margaret Atwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed one of America's most-loved novels by PBS’s \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThings Fall Apart \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith more than twenty million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, \u003ci\u003eThings Fall Apart \u003c\/i\u003eprovides 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.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370086862909,"sku":"9780385474542","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780385474542_p0.jpg?v=1771587975","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780385474542","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}