Journal Entry 1 by rootmartin from Marlborough, Massachusetts USA on Sunday, October 14, 2007

From back flap:

"First published in England in 1958, Things Fall Apart is Chinua Achebe's first and most famous novel, a classic of modern African writing. It is the story of a "strong" man whose life is dominated by fear and anger, a powerful and moving narrative that critics have compared with class Greek tragedy. Written with remarkable economy and subtle irony, it is uniquely and richly African and at the same time reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.

Things Fall Apart is no less successful as a social document, dramatizing tradition Ibo life in its first encounter with colonialism and Christianity at the turn of this century. Set in a Ibo village in Christian tribal life and shows how the coming of the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways."