No Longer At Ease

by ACHEBE, CHINUA

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Doubleday and Company, Inc., New York:. Softcover. Good condition. In this novel, written before he was thirty, Achebe has created a classic story of both personal and moral struggle, and turbulent social conflict. Obi Okonkwo's foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. The agony of choosing between traditional values and the demands of a changing world is dramatized with unequaled clarity and poignancy. "Chinua Achebe is gloriously gifted with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." - Nadine Gordimer. ISBN: 0385474555.

Book summary

This early novel portrays the frustrations and disillusions of Obi Okonkwo, a young African educated abroad who tries to hold on to his traditional tribal culture when is encounters the corrupt ruling bureaucracy of his newly-independent country.