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Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ listed among 12 “Greatest Books Ever Written”
The first novel written by late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe entitled ‘Things Fall Apart’, often considered as his best, and perhaps the most widely read book in modern African literature has been listed as one of the twelve novels considered the “Greatest Books Ever Written” by the Encyclopedia Britannica.
According to the compilation written by John Pecoraro, the book ‘Things Fall Apart’ which now exists in 57 translations across the world, with 20 million copies sold worldwide is one of the greatest ever written novels on the website of Encyclopedia Britannica in recent times.
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Other novels that made the list include; “Anna Karenina,” by Leo Tolstoy, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee, “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “A Passage to India,” by E.M. Forster, “Invisible Man,” by Ralph Ellison, “Don Quixote,” by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “Beloved,” by Toni Morrison, “Mrs. Dalloway,” by Virginia Woolf, “Jane Eyre,” by Charlotte Bronte, “The Color Purple,” by Alice Walker.
The development is coming months after marking the 60th anniversary of the publication of the novel by Chinua Achebe and the release of a new edition of the classic novel with cover artwork by Nigerian artist, Victor Ekpuk.
The novel tells the tale of Africa’s encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy Igbo warrior in the late 1800s, it explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his traditions by British political and religious forces.
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