Classics
Literary
Historical fiction
1958
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Published in Spanish as Todo se desmorona
The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable…
What it is
A big story that sweeps you along · melancholic and unhurried
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Who tells it
- A narrator who knows it all
- Style
- Literary
- Prose
- Spare
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you like a book that stays with you for days
- you like a book that makes you think
- you want something big, with room to breathe
Maybe not if…
- you'd rather skip the hard scenes
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