A Man of the People - Brossura

Achebe, Chinua

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385667795 ISBN 13: 9780385667791

Casa editrice: Anchor Canada, 2010

Riassunto

By the renowned author of Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.

In the landscape of Western Africa, two political traditions collide: the old bush politians against the new intelellectual generation, and a mentor and his protegee must wage the war. Achebe details one society's struggle with the inner turmoil created in the wake of the new-found freedom from the colonial order. This is a story about national identity and political unity.

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Informazioni sull?autore

CHINUA ACHEBE was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi. He is a graduate of University College, Ibadan. His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War. From 1972 to 1976, and again in 1987 to 1988, Achebe was Professor of English at the University of Masachusetts, Amherst, and also for one year at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Achebe has received numerous honours from around the world, including the Honorary Fellowship of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as eleven honorary doctorates from universities in England, Scotland, the United States, Canada and Nigeria. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. Achebe lives with his wife in Annandale, New York, where they both teach at Bard College. They have four children.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Anchor Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0385667795
• ISBN 13: 9780385667791
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 160
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile