Things Fall Apart | Related Titles
As this is Achebe's first novel, there really are not any earlier related titles. No Longer at Ease (1960) can be considered a sequel, as it tells the story of Okonkwo's grandson, who by being educated in England rises to a good position as a colonial civil servant only to meet his downfall when he takes a bribe. The book is narrated as a flashback, and is less about the hero's moral culpability as it is about his being caught in the complex web of circumstances and contradictions which colonialism has woven since the time of his grandfather. Like his grandfather, Obi Okonkwo has...
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