There Was a Country. A Personal History of Biafra, Paperback - Chinua Achebe

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 ...

Lebanese writer Vénus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France's major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic po...

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

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

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This novel about Nigeria prophesied the 1983 coup.

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

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...

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

Reducere. During the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear devastation. America's hope for national security relied ...

Reducere. THRIFTWOOD is a mixture of personal memoir and cultural and literary criticism, which explores the ideas of the liminal, changing place and liminal...

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...

DescriptionIn Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s, Tom Hayden, a seminal figure in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, documen...

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

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

For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores...

Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize...

The uniques skills of John Guthrie are required for a dangerous mission - being dropped into North Vietnam to work with the Viet Minh against the J...

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,...

Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travel...

Reducere. The first book of its kind about what it's like to be a child with ADHD, Hyper is a "haunting narrative that explores the world's most scrutinized ...

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

'This trot through German culture and history is an engrossing, informative and hilarious read' Sunday Times

Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a gener...

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building the...

A work of fiction informed by history, Once There Was Fire is the story of Kamehameha the Great, who rose from inauspicious beginnings on the Big I...

Reducere. The Pattons is an exceptional portrait of the famous military family, eloquently written by the grandson of its most illustrious member, George S. ...

In this compelling and chilling memoir, a top forensic investigator lifts the lid on the most notable and notorious cases of his forty-year career.

An odyssey through the art, theory and brutality of modern political murder by Robert Baer, bestselling author, former CIA operative, and, yes, ass...

Reducere. 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 ...