{"product_id":"things-fall-apart","title":"Things Fall Apart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.\" --Toni Morrison \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThings Fall Apart 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With more than 20 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 Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39325235871844,"sku":"9780385474542","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/things-fall-apart","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}