A Drummer Speaks From the Bush

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	• Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Demco Media, 1994 - 209 pages average customer review:based on 530 reviews
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highly recommended

A Drummer Speaks From the Bush

This story lingers long after the African names and details have faded. Man in a time of change, a novel of timeless dimension. Its easy text belies the unfolded complexities of rights and wrongs, of God and gods, and value systems at odds with each other.

Things Fall apart audio

My son had a senior project to do over the summer, he had to read this entire book and the first day back to school, he had a test on it, my son does not do well on reading, he can read great, but he has trouble remembering what he read, so I thought if he listened to it being read to him, he could follow along better, well he did, and he done well on his test and essay, I would recommend this product to anyone with similiar problems as my son has with reading.......

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Should be required reading

We had to read this for high school (I think it was grade 10, which would make it a ridiculously long time ago), but I loved this book from the first time I picked it up. A richly descriptive story of tribal conflict and the arrival of the white man in traditional non-Christian Africa. Although we, in the modern world, may deride Okonkwo for denouncing progress and advancement, he is a very sympathetic character whose ideals and traditions one must respect deeply. This is a beautiful tragedy of coming of age, in a sense, for the African tribesman, and should be mandatory reading. It's a fantastic book, and you won't regret picking it up.

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Things Fall Apart

My son needed this book for school and we received in time for school. Great service!

Stealthy...

At 180 pages, Things Fall Apart possesses the requisite brevity to urge a reader along. And, thank goodness for this, for had I not been sure I would finish the book in one day, I might well have let it sit for longer. Achebe's opening chapters are childlike in their simplicity. A sing-song narrative meanders from one social event to another with no clear direction perceptible. Indeed, the ostensible insignificance of it all remains unchallenged for nearly two-thirds of the book. It is then, however, that the protagonist Okonkwo is banished from his village for an accidental transgression. It is during this absense that European missionaries come to call. And things, with alacrity, begin to fall apart.

As the social cohesion of the Ibo dissolves, I recognized the artfulness of Achebe's approach. Though Ibo customs could be violent and harshly uncompromising, the author deftly portrays the comfort and security that timeless tradition brings. The threshold event encountered, the sing-song narrative quickly transforms into a tragic account of confrontation and loss. The abrupt transition from seclusion to exposure is the hinge on which the book swings. Deceptively powerful, Things Fall Apart is a quick read that will leave the reader far more reflective than initially presumed. 5 stars.

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