- Adventure and adventurers, Blacks, City and town life, Fiction
When an eleven-year-old Nigerian boy leaves his small village to live with his uncle in the city, he is exposed to a range of new experiences and becomes fascinated with crossing the Niger River on a ferry boat.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Chinua Achebe
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press, Anchor Books, Anchor
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307742070
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Africa's most famous and illustrious black novelist. Nigerian born writer of powerful fiction, poetry, literary criticism, and children's books
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