Things Fall Apart

First of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. A classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through fictional experiences of Okonkwo…

More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United States.

Historical Fiction.