{"product_id":"things-fall-apart","title":"Things Fall Apart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ws-nw role-A\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/authors\/75\/chinua-achebe\/\"\u003eChinua Achebe\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ws-nw role-A\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe’s critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa’s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexplores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith more than twenty million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprovides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House - 394","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59759964815646,"sku":"9780385474542","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0248\/3598\/1393\/files\/9780385474542-us_1.jpg?v=1786461266","url":"https:\/\/juilliardstore.com\/products\/things-fall-apart","provider":"Juilliard Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}