| There Was a Country: A Memoir Contributor(s): Achebe, Chinua (Author) |
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ISBN: 014312403X ISBN-13: 9780143124030 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | Africa - West - History | Military - Wars & Conflicts (other) |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.7" W x 8.5" (0.60 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Africa - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart--a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa's most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe's place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age. |