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NO LONGER AT EASE
de Achebe, Chinua
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
- Librería
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London: Heinemann, 1960. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. Scarce first edition of Achebe's second novel, set in contemporary Nigeria and following the grandson of Okonkwo, hero of THINGS FALL APART. NO LONGER AT EASE derives its title from Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" ("But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation"), as the preceding THINGS FALL APART alludes to Yeats; in it, Achebe arranges for his protagonist a quiet, understated catastrophe of colonial pressures and corruption. Following the novel's publication and positive reception, Achebe was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, the first of many major awards and honors to follow. 7.25'' x 5''. Original oxblood cloth. In original unclipped (13s 6d) pictorial dust jacket by Peter Edwards. 170 pages. Ink owner name to front free endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers and edges of text block, spine lean. Minor soil and chipping to jacket at extremities, with touch of fading to spine.
Sinopsis
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo (also spelled Ibo) man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for a British education and a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service, but who struggles to adapt to a Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the sequel to Achebe's Things Fall Apart, which concerned the struggle of Obi Okonkwo's grandfather Okonkwo against the changes brought by the English.
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El Aug 22 2021, un lector dijo:
No longer at ease is a novel by Chinua Achebe published in the 1960 and it is a continuity of things fall apart. It revolves around Obi Okonkwo who is in between the western and African culture . The novel begins when he is before a court facing corruption charges and it tells us how in the start he was an honest person having studied in England and did English but at the end he fails. Obi's life is for of struggle the girl he wants to marry is an outcast and his mother refuses and vows to kill her self if they get married.
One of the great theme is theme of struggle or clush between cultures. Also corruption has been brought in the light through the pratagonist Obi Okonkwo. Theme of unity through umofia progressive Union which funded obi's education although he will pay back. Education has been highlighted through characters like Obi, Clara and many more also religion through Obi's father Isaac who shifts to Christianity.
This is an interesting novel to read as it highlights African problems.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Type Punch Matrix
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 47620
- Título
- NO LONGER AT EASE
- Autor
- Achebe, Chinua
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Heinemann
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1960
- Palabras clave
- Africa,20th century,1960s,Africa (West)
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