No Longer At Ease
by Chinua Achebe
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- acceptable/poor/none
- ISBN 10
- 0449300234
- ISBN 13
- 9780449300237
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe, pub Fawcett (1988), fifty printing, Third Book in African Triology, ISBN 0449300234, 159 pages, about 4-1/2"x7"x3/8"....former library paperback book in poor/acceptable condition, covers are torn with missing pieces front & back, pages are tanned from age, still a good reading copy...Chinua Achelbe is a prominent modern Nigerian author...LAX Vespa, Los Angeles - maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit.....7 days usually coast to coast, less if closer....
No Longer At Ease Chinua Achebe, published Fawcett, 3rd book African Triology paperback
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Synopsis
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.
Reviews
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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- Bookseller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7107
- Title
- No Longer At Ease
- Author
- Chinua Achebe
- Book Condition
- Used - acceptable/poor
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fifth Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0449300234
- ISBN 13
- 9780449300237
- Publisher
- Fawcett
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 159 PAGES
- Size
- about 4-1/2"x7"x3/8"
- Keywords
- No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe, Fawcett (1988), fifty printing, Third Book in African Triology, ISBN 0449300234 black author Laxvespa Los Angeles
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- REL 2 LR; Black.Author;
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