The African Triology Chinua Achebe

The African Triology: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God Chinua Achebe Publisher: Everyman’s Library ISBN: 9781841593272 Collected here for the first time are the three internationally acclaimed novels that form Chinua Achebe’s celebrated ‘African Trilogy’.

In Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s first and most widely loved novel, the personal tragedy of Okonkwo—a proud ‘strong man’ and tribal elder—is interwoven with the transformation of traditional Igbo society under the pressures of Christianity and colonialism.

In No Longer at Ease, Okonkwo’s grandson Obi, educated in England, returns to colonial Nigeria to take up a civil service post, only to find himself in conflict with the very system he once hoped to serve.

In Arrow of God, the clash between tradition and change is explored through the perspectives of Ezeulu, an Igbo priest, and Captain Winterbottom, a British district officer.

Written in spare, lucid prose, Achebe’s novels present universal stories of personal and moral struggle within a rapidly changing world, works that have captured the imagination of readers across the globe.