Four Continents + CD - Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe

Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all wri...

This study casts back over Achebe's writing career to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial writing and criticism, including his Edi...

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,...

Reducere. One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our soc...

This novel about Nigeria prophesied the 1983 coup.

Reducere. Telling Tales, Paperback

Gives us a portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both the author's happy memories of reading...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. "In this powerful illustrated fable for older picture book readers, Achebe, the celebrated Nigerian writer, offers a parable about how power corrup...

Reducere. "Superb...a series of masterly drawn glimpses into the storymaking art of one of Africa's great modern literary geniuses." -Alan Cheuse, NPR A sele...

Headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu is worshipped by six villages, but finds his authority under threat. He is prepared to do anything to lead h...

Reducere. "With the scaffolding of a courtroom drama and the moral underpinnings of the state's responsibility, the novel infuses an isolated crime of passio...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, regarded as one of literatur...

'...The story is the tragedy of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene ... a very...

Writer's Letters is a collection of fascinating letters written by great writers, from Dickens to De BeauvoirPublisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers ...

Reducere. Things Fall Apart, tells of a troubled young African whose formal education separates him from his roots and makes him part of a corrupt ruling eli...

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. I...

An idealistic young man educated in Britain, Obi returns home to Nigeria for a job in the civil service, but finds himself seduced by backhanders a...

From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corrupt...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Kalu OgbaaIllustration(s): 13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of page...

Part of Bloomsbury's ongoing promotion of Nadine Gordimer's work.

The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and ...

Features a collection of sixteen stories.

Reducere. The eminent African novelist and critic, here addresses Nigeria's problems, aiming to challenge the resignation of Nigerians and inspire them to re...

The collected stories of one of the world's great living writers are published in one volume for the first time

This book studies culture in terms of myths and how they function to construct the identity of communities. It focuses on myth formation in the fic...

Reducere. "A perfect example of what literature can give us that history books cannot."--Francine Prose, The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Book ...

Reducere. When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary mishap, but his father is no ...

Reducere. Against the sweeping history of the 20th century, two people from different worlds find each other and create a unified life. In Two Lives on Four ...

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Reducere. This is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from the author's family, youth, career, and travel. Paul Bennett provides readers with his uni...

Reducere. BOURGEOIS TO BUDDHA is a tale of one woman's mid-life inferno after her nest empties and how she exits her standard American home, husband and care...