![]() ![]() The book continues to live: High school kids and college students read it for class, while African novelists read it to pursue its ideas and themes. Not only did it sell - nearly 10 million copies, in 50 languages - this slim, understated volume became the one African novel to break, unambiguously, into the often impenetrable Western canon. The book eventually released, “Things Fall Apart,” became a critical hit in Britain as well as the first African novel to break through to the English-speaking world. These pages, after several rejections, later found their way to a sympathetic publisher. ![]() ![]() The manuscript sat untouched for months, until a colleague rescued it during a visit to Britain. About a half-century ago, a shy young Nigerian man, who had grown up reading Dickens and “Pilgrim’s Progress,” put his handwritten novel in the mail to a typing service in London. ![]()
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