yanez reviewed Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Things do fall apart indeed - a great book and a great, sorrowful story
This is great African literature, and it's great literature.
It's an adventure book, to me, that punches you in the stomach. And if you don't feel the punch, it just means that you're not able to read.
This book called me from the bookstore shelf a few times in the last months. It's the huge bookstore in Roma Termini train station, and the copy I finally bought last week was always the same one. I did not know this author, nor I heard about this book. I'm sure many will read this as a piece of "african literature", and even if it is, I believe it is foolishness to treat it as such, just like it feels strange when I hear talk about the Divine Comedy as a "european masterpiece". It's a great book, with a great, sorrowful story, full of people and lives.
