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No Longer at Ease
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role …
Inte längre hemma
"En ytterst läsvärd roman" SydsvenskanObi Okonkwo är en man med höga ideal. Med sin brittiska utbildning och sitt nya, statliga jobb är han en del av den generation som ska ta …
Allt går sönder
Okonkwos namn var känt i alla nio byarna och vida däromkring. Så lyder den berömda första meningen i Chinua Achebes roman Allt går sönder. Okonkwo är den stoltaste och mest …
Things Fall Apart
First time in Modern Classics. Things Fall Apart is one of the modern age's defining books - the book that marked African independence and in one leap created a powerful, vivid …
Arrow of God
Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly under threat - from his rivals …
Allt går sönder
Chinua Achebe är portalfiguren i den moderna afrikanska litteraturen. Hans debutroman från 1958 Allt går sönder har blivit en klassiker. Den skildrar kollisionen mellan det …
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart No Longer at Ease Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an international readership. Following …
Weep Not, Child
The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's powerful first novel Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, …
Home and Exile
This trenchant and illuminating book by one of Africa's most influential and celebrated writers is a major statement on the importance and dangers of stories, one in which Achebe …
The River Between
A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening …
Anthills of the Savannah
Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of …
Petals of Blood
The baffling murders of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery are set against the backdrop of the intertwined stories of the four suspects in the crime, in a novel, …