When Things Fall Apart : Throughline Climate disaster, political unrest, random violence: Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls "a thin layer of ice on top of ...

Things Fall Apart quickly went out of print, and according to Achebe, it wouldn’t have graced shelves again if for not for Alan Hill, who decided to take a gamble and put out a paperback edition.

A literary legacy. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is not just a story; it is a cornerstone of African literature and has garnered international acclaim. The novel is the first in Achebe’s ...