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By: Achebe, Chinua
Price: $175.00 $157.50
Publisher: London, UK, Contemporary Fiction: 1962
Edition: Book Club (Contemporay Fiction- UK
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6600
This copy has been boldly SIGNED by Chinua Achebe on the title page. First published in the UK by Heinemann in 1960 - this is a UK book club edition with Newsletter enclosed which features this title as their Number 1 choice in August 1962. In this, his second novel, he tells the story of Okonkwo’s grandson, Obi, who learns to fit into British colonial society. Raised as a Christian and educated in England, Obi abandons the countryside for a job as a civil servant in L... View more info
By: Achebe, Chinua [David Carroll]
Price: $185.00 $166.50
Publisher: New York, NY, St. Martin's Press: 1980
Edition: Second Edition (Printed in UK)
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6601
This is a Second Edition of the critical study of Chinua Achebe (SIGNED by Achebe) the most widely known African writer. An earlier version of this study first appeared in 1970 - this second edition represents an updating and reflects significant new writings by Achebe since that time. The introduction to this critical study by David Carroll presents the context in which Achebe writes - the traditional ways of his own Igbo society, and the European contact with Africa. I... View more info
By: Achebe, Chinua [David Carroll]
Price: $35.00 $31.50
Publisher: New York, New York, Twayne Publishers, Inc: 1970
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Seller ID: 7652
Chinua Achebe is one of the most impressive of the African novelists writing at the present time. His novels describe with wit and dignity the traditional way of life of a West African people before the coming of the white man.This study, the first extensive discussion of Achebe's novels, examines the various aspects of this confrontation, and also the techniques by which it is articulated. Europe and Africa meet and interact not only in the drama of events, but also in ... View more info
By: Obioma, Chigozie
Price: $65.00 $58.50
Publisher: New York, New York, Little, Brown and Company: 2015
Edition: First American Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8451
This copy of "The Fishermen" has been SIGNED (with flourish!) by Chigozie Obioma on the title page! He has also dated it 13-5-15 - the month following its published date. In a Nigerian town in the mid-1990s, four brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family. With this bold debut (a Finalist for the 2015 MAN Booker Prize) Chicozie Obioma emerges as one of the most original new voices of modern African litera... View more info