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This is a classic novel by Chinua Achebe. It tells the story of a man named Okonkwo and his struggles in the Nigerian village he grew up in. The novel is full of rich African culture and is also full of the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity. It has been praised by Nadine Gordimer as a "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent."
This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." -- Nadine Gordimer