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From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war
For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe has maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage have left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe has maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage have left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
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- Título There Was a Country: A Memoir
- Autor Chinua Achebe
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición 1st Edition thus
- Páginas 352
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Penguin Books, New York, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2013-09-24
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780143124030 / 014312403X
- Peso 0.6 libras (0.27 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.8 pulgadas (21.59 x 14.48 x 2.03 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Cultural Region: West Africa
- Library of Congress subjects Achebe, Chinua, Nigeria - History - Civil War, 1967-1970
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
"Foreign Policy Must Read 2012" by Books from Global Thinkers
“Chinua Achebe’s history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom. It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer’s brilliant mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literature in which politico-historical evidence, the power of story-telling, and revelations from the depths of the human subconscious are one. The event of a new work by Chinua Achebe is always extraordinary; this one exceeds all expectation.”—Nadine Gordimer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
“A fascinating and gripping memoir.” —The Wall Street Journal
“There Was a Country ought to be essential reading…an eclectic range of insights and fascinating anecdotes.”—Financial Times
“Achebe writes in a characteristically modest fashion…Like much of Achebe’s other work, this book about the progress of war and the presence of violence has a universal quality. In a world where sectarian hatreds augmented by political mediocrity have fractured Syria and threaten to bring Israel and Iran to blows, There Was a Country is a valuable account of how the suffering caused by war is both unnecessary and formative.”—Newsweek
"Memoir and history are brought together by a master storyteller."
—The Guardian
Citas
- New York Times Book Review, 11/10/2013, Page 56
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