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(thing) by mcSey (1.7 mon) (print) ? 1 C! Mon Jun 05 2000 at 20:19:15

1958 Novel by Chinua Achebe which describes the first meeting of an African tribe with colonial white men.
It's a thin book, filled with the sort of noble savage wisdom conquered people like to dole out. On that political level, I've always thought the book fails. On every other level, plot, characters, literary devices -- I love this book.

Achebe, who writes in French (I think), is a genius craftsman with language. The only other writer of story and prose that translates so well is Milan Kundera. Both grab at the reader in any language, gently inundating the him or her with soft beautiful text strings that hide hard truths.

The kola nut is prominently features throughout
the novel. It's demise from a religious
symbol to a cultivated cash crop is a beautiful metaphor that runs through the book.

A particularly telling scene from the book describes the......

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