11/21/2023 0 Comments All thing fall- The New Lifetime Reading Plan (The New Lifetime Reading Plan).- Books That Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History (Book).- 71st on The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time: The List (The Observer).- 70th on Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (Radcliffe Publishing Course).- 55th on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100).- 39th on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph).- 1st on Top 100 World Literature Titles (Perfection Learning).The 58th greatest fiction book of all time By the time the British colonial administrator arrives towards the end of the book to dismiss the natives as savages, we know how profoundly mistaken that word is.- R.L. Achebe guides us through the intricacies of Igbo culture, its profound sense of justice, its sometimes murderous rules, its noble and harmful machismo. Determined to be a lord, he observes its rules, even the harshest of them, though that observance will eventually drive away his own son. Okonkwo is an ambitious man within the Umuofia clan of the Igbo tribe. Instead of being treated as onlookers to the arrival of the colonial power, either passive or menacing, here the Africans are center stage, capable all the while of nobility but also cruelty, wisdom and bewilderment. The Nigerian novelist Achebe reached back to the early days of his people's encounter with colonialism, the 1890's, though the white man and his religion make an impression upon the story only in its later stages. A novel of great power that turns the world upside down.
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