Things Fall Apart
5 hrs. 20 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Chinua Achebe
Author
Chinua Achebe
Narrator
Stanislav Ivanov
Narrator
Stanislav Ivanov
Description
The most famous and popular novel by a modern African writer.
On the edge of the Forest lived the people of Nine Villages. They lived the way their ancestors had lived for centuries—members of an astonishing people who both honored their peculiar, humanly capricious gods and respected strict but kind spirits. They performed rituals which, in the eyes of foreigners, seemed strange and cruel. They fought, made peace, raised children. They worked the fields and harvested crops. They drank homemade palm wine and celebrated at festivals.
And then the Europeans came—with the intention of teaching “black savages” to live as whites, to believe as whites, and to raise children as whites. Strong, civilized people, ready to make the people of Nine Villages happy with a firm hand.
But who, and when, managed to make anyone happy by force in this world?
On the edge of the Forest lived the people of Nine Villages. They lived the way their ancestors had lived for centuries—members of an astonishing people who both honored their peculiar, humanly capricious gods and respected strict but kind spirits. They performed rituals which, in the eyes of foreigners, seemed strange and cruel. They fought, made peace, raised children. They worked the fields and harvested crops. They drank homemade palm wine and celebrated at festivals.
And then the Europeans came—with the intention of teaching “black savages” to live as whites, to believe as whites, and to raise children as whites. Strong, civilized people, ready to make the people of Nine Villages happy with a firm hand.
But who, and when, managed to make anyone happy by force in this world?
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