Bookn' with Friends Book Club: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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Adults
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Join us for a discussion of Things Fall Apart. Chosen by the Friends of the Library, this book is bound to be good:)  

All are welcome; sign up below. This book meets WPL's 2021 Reading Challenge!  Books are available for pick-up 1 month prior to the discussion.

 

Book Synopsis:

More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United States.

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.