《荒原蚁丘》（Anthills of the Savannah）是非洲现代文学之父，布克奖获奖作者钦努阿·阿契贝后四十年创作生涯中唯一的长篇小说，文坛大师的最成熟之作，最重要的非洲小说之一。其永恒价值超越乔治·奥威尔的不朽著作《1984》。
故事发生在虚构的西非国家卡根，卡根政府腐败专横，国家仅存的民主制度，时刻面临着独裁统治的威胁。总统萨姆曾在英国受训，担任政府首脑后，逐渐受到极权统治的蛊惑，试图结束民主政治。克里斯托弗是新闻部长，负责新闻管制，被迫去监控《国家公报》 编辑伊肯的言行。因为伊肯发表了抨击萨姆政府的评论，并参与反独裁的民主活动。三人原本同在英国留学，是志趣相投的好友，但因为政治信仰的差异而走向不同的命运……
不是阿契贝需要诺贝尔奖；正相反，是诺贝尔奖需要阿契贝来证明自己。
——尼日利亚《每日太阳报》
全世界的作家都在为新的现实和新的社会寻求新的语汇和新的形式，阿契贝为他们指明了道路。
——《纽约时报》
阿契贝的这个故事，避开了非洲式体验的意识形态和政治进程，是为了引领人们去见识极富人性意味的普世智慧。
——《华盛顿邮报图书世界》
《荒原蚁丘》具有绝妙的讽刺性瞬间，回荡着非洲人的高亢笑声。
——《纽约书评》
《荒原蚁丘》将为世人铭记。这幅社会变迁的图景挟裹着预言般的力量，击打我们的心灵。
——《今日美国》

By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.

Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son.

THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. THINGS FALL APART is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within.

This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." -- Nadine Gordimer

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly under threat - from his rivals in the tribe, from those in the white government and even from his own family. Yet he still feels he must be untouchable - surely he is an arrow in the bow of his God? Armed with this belief, he is prepared to lead his people, even if it means destruction and annihilation. Yet the people will not be so easily dominated. Spare and powerful, "Arrow of God" is an unforgettable portrayal of the loss of faith, and the struggle between tradition and change. Continuing the epic saga of the community in "Things Fall Apart", it is the second volume of Achebe's African trilogy, and is followed by "No Longer at Ease".

The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him parts of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant.  More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society.

In “The Education of a British-Protected Child,” Achebe gives us a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its “middle ground,” recalling both his happy memories of reading novels in secondary school and the harsher truths of colonial rule. In “African-American Visitations,” we witness the terrifying nature of the African diaspora and what it means not to know “from whence he came.” Politics and history figure in “What Is Nigeria to Me?,” “Africa’s Tarnished Name,” and “Politics of the Politicians of Language.” And Achebe’s extraordinary family comes into view in “My Dad and Me” and “My Daughters.”
Charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and steadfastly wise, The Education of a British-Protected Child is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.
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Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl - to the disapproval of his parents - he sinks further into emotional and financial turmoil. The lure of easy money becomes harder to refuse, and Obi becomes caught in a trap he cannot escape. Showing a man lost in cultural limbo, and a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment, "No Longer at Ease" concludes Achebe's remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the impact of colonialism, the first two volumes of which are "Things Fall Apart" and "Arrow of God".

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, Okonowo takes violent action. Will the great man's dangerous pride eventually destroy him?

Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who "opened the magic casements of African fiction."
--comprised of
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--is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire.
The trilogy opens with the groundbreaking
, the tale of Okonkwo, a hero in his village, whose clashes with missionaries--coupled with his own tragic pride--lead to his fall from grace.
takes up the ongoing conflict between continuity and change as Ezeulu, the headstrong chief priest, finds his authority is under threat from rivals and colonial functionaries. But he believes himself to be untouchable and is determined to lead his people, even if it is towards their own destruction. Finally, in
, Okonkwo's grandson, educated in England, returns to a civil-service job in Lagos, only to see his morality erode as he clings to his membership in the ruling elite.
Drawing on the traditional Igbo tales of Achebe's youth,
is a literary landmark, a mythic and universal tale of modern Africa. As Toni Morrison wrote, "African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe. For passion, intellect and crystalline prose, he is unsurpassed."

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'[The writer] in whose company the prison walls fell down' - Nelson Mandela. After a long silence Achebe published in 1987 what many see as his greatest work - an acrid, frightening look at oil-boom Nigeria, a world of robberies, road blocks and intimidation in which those who are meant to be protecting a country's citizens are in reality supervising the looting.

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.

Allt går sönder är den moderna afrikanska litteraturens stora klassiker, och skildrar mötet mellan ett afrikanskt stamsamhälle och den europeiska kolonialismen.

Achebes stil är klar, enkel och rapp då han skildrar det dramatiska händelseförlopp som inledde den djupgående omvandling av Afrika som ekar in i vår tid.

Med ett förord av Per Wästberg och essän "Igbofolkets kultur och historia" av Don C. Ohadike.