A Man of the People (African Writers Series) - Softcover

Achebe, Chinua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435905341 ISBN 13: 9780435905347

Publisher: Gardners Books, 1988

Synopsis

This novel was included in Anthony Burgess's personal selection of the 99 best novels in English since 1939.

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From the Publisher:

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.

About the Author:

Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) was born in Nigeria. Widely considered to be the father of modern African literature, he is best known for his masterful African Trilogy, consisting of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease. The trilogy tells the story of a single Nigerian community over three generations from first colonial contact to urban migration and the breakdown of traditional cultures. He is also the author of Anthills of the Savannah, A Man of the People, Girls at War and Other Stories, Home and Exile, Hopes and Impediments, Collected Poems, The Education of a British-Protected Child, Chike and the River, and There Was a Country. He was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and, for more than fifteen years, was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. Achebe was the recipient of the Nigerian National Merit Award, Nigeria’s highest award for intellectual achievement. In 2007, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gardners Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0435905341
• ISBN 13: 9780435905347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160