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Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Critical Reading By Nasima A. Mazarbhuiyan and Dr. Pamela Sarmah

This book is designed to guide the students of B. A English Literature 6th Semester, Gauhati University through Things Fall Apart, written by Chinua Achebe.

It provides new insights and research-based textual analysis, which will help students better understand the text.

It includes objective knowledge and key facts about Things Fall Apart and African Literature that will help you prepare for competitive level exams (UGC NET/SET/JRF).

The book also includes over 100 questions to help students prepare for their Undergraduate Final Examination. Additional information is blended in the citation and web resources sections.

This additional information can help students plan their higher education both in India and abroad.

About The Book:

Chinua Achebe was the pioneer of African literature written in English. His novel “Things Fall Apart”, published in 1959, had won him International Booker Prize. Unremittingly tragic and heart-rendering, the story exposes the mindless conspiracies of colonialism, insanity of violence and the plight of Africans through Okonkwo, who was poor and humiliated as a child due to his father’s weakness. Okonkwo becomes prosperous, but fate and time have displaced Okonkwo from his centre- which had fallen apart due to British despotism. The night mare arrives when he kills the British messenger, and no clansmen support him. Things Fall Apart A Critical Reading provides a critical understanding of the text with selected excerpts, essays, themes, the author’s biography, resources and a glossary that are essential and no student of English literature can afford to ignore.