There Was a Country
  • Published:
    Sep-2013
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    1960's-1970's 20th Century
  • Pages:
    352
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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 has 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. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering account of one of modern Africa's most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage have 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.
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    • First Edition
    • Sep-2013
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 014312403X
    • ISBN13: 9780143124030
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    • Oct-2012
    • The Penguin Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Oct-2012
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1101595981
    • ISBN13: 9781101595985



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