No Longer at Ease - Softcover

Achebe, Chinua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449300234 ISBN 13: 9780449300237

Publisher: Fawcett Books, 1990

Synopsis

A bright young Nigerian civil servant's promising future is threatened by his acceptance of bribes

About this title

From the Publisher:

The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him parts of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0449300234
• ISBN 13: 9780449300237
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 159