There Was a Country: A Memoir Paperback - 2013

Details

• Title There Was a Country: A Memoir
• Author Chinua Achebe
• Binding Paperback
• Edition 1st Edition thus
• Pages 352
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York
• Date 2013-09-24
• Illustrated Yes
• ISBN 9780143124030 / 014312403X
• Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
• Dimensions 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.8 in (21.59 x 14.48 x 2.03 cm)
• Ages 18 to UP years
• Grade levels 13 - UP
• Themes
  • 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

"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