Chinua Achebe

Broschiertes Buch

There Was a Country

A Personal History of Biafra

Beschreibung

The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and vivid first-hand observation, this title is a work of wisdom and compassion from one of the great voices of our age.

Autor

Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He published novels, short stories, essays, and children's books. His volume of poetry, Christmas in Biafra, was the joint winner of the first Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Of his novels, Arrow of God won the New Statesman-Jock Campbell Award, and Anthills of the Savannah was a finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize. Things Fall Apart, Achebe's masterpiece, has been published in fifty different languages and has sold more than ten million copies. Achebe lectured widely, receiving many honors from around the world. He was the recipient of the Nigerian National Merit Award, Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize. He died in March 2013.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780241959206
• ISBN-10: 0241959209
• Artikelnr.: 37732137