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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Things fall apart</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Achebe, Chinua,|eauthor</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New York, New York</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Penguin Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>Ã1959, 2017</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2017</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>209 pages:</extent>
    <extent>21 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>First published in 1959, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Chinua Achebe.</note>
  <note>in English</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Igbo (African people)</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>British</topic>
    <geographic>Nigeria</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Men</topic>
    <geographic>Nigeria</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Race relations</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Nigeria</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">823 A17t 2017</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780385474542</identifier>
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