Anthills of the Savannah - Couverture rigide

Achebe, Chinua

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0385016646 ISBN 13 : 9780385016643

Editeur : Anchor Books, 1988

Synopsis

Book by Achebe Chinua

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

CHINUA ACHEBE was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi. He is a graduate of University College, Ibadan. His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War. From 1972 to 1976, and again in 1987 to 1988, Achebe was Professor of English at the University of Masachusetts, Amherst, and also for one year at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Achebe has received numerous honours from around the world, including the Honorary Fellowship of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as eleven honorary doctorates from universities in England, Scotland, the United States, Canada and Nigeria. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. Achebe lives with his wife in Annandale, New York, where they both teach at Bard College. They have four children.

Revue de presse :

"Achebe has written a story that sidesteps both ideologies of the African experience and political agendas, in order to lead us to a deeply human universal wisdom."
— The Washington Post Book World

"[Anthills of the Savannah] has wonderful satiric moments and resounds with big African laughter."
— The New York Review of Books

"Achebe moves effortlessly ... creating a flurry of perspectives from which his story's dramatic and disturbing events are scrutinized. Anthills of the Savannah ... will prove hard to forget. It's a vision of social change that strikes us with the foce of prophecy."
— USA Today

"This bitterly ironic novel by the Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart is at times more of a polemic than dramatic narrative, but it presents a candid, trenchantly insightful view of contemporary Africa."
— Publisher's Weekly

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Anchor Books
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0385016646
• ISBN 13: 9780385016643
• Reliure: Relié