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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

Chinua Achebe

Start date: February 1, 2015

Finish date: February 28, 2015

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Why we're reading this: February 2015 New School Classics Group Read
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Feb 14, 2017 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: viciados-em-livros, e-books, 1000-guardian, fiction-20th-century, read-2017, mtbr-challenge-2017, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, african-literature, novellas, nigeria

This is the first book of the The African Trilogy and I really liked it. "Arrow of God" to be read next. ...more

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Apr 01, 2008 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, era-early-1900s, classic, 1001-books, re-read, oh-unlikeable-you

There is no story that is not true. ... The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

This was a re-read for me, because my 9th grader will be reading it for her English class, and I wanted to refresh my memory, since the last time I read it was (approximately) 1990-1993.

This book didn't really benefit from a re-read. The first time I read it, I had never before read a Nigerian author, and I learned a lot. I was fascinated, even enchanted, by the diffe ...more

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