{"product_id":"things-fall-apart","title":"Things Fall Apart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA monumental classic in Anglophone African literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWinner of the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically-acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexplores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political and religious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith more than twenty million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings Fall Apart\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprovides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to pre-colonial African experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48427667685634,"sku":"9780385474542","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2228\/7429\/files\/thingsfallapart.jpg?v=1788399703","url":"https:\/\/shop.stlartsupply.com\/products\/things-fall-apart","provider":"St. Louis Art Supply","version":"1.0","type":"link"}