Things Fall Apart

Winner of International Man Booker Prize 2007

One of a series of fiction titles for schools. Okonkwo, a man of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria at the end of the last century, is a person of substance, character, and promise, but he and his people are doomed to be destroyed – both from within the tribe and by the arrival of the white man.

“The drums were still beating, persistent, and unchanging. Their sound was no longer a separate thing from the living village. It was like the pulsation of its heart. It throbbed in the air, in the sunshine, and even in the trees, and filled the village with excitement.” – Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart