- Fiction, Igbo (African Tribe), City and town life, Romance
When Obi Okonkwo, grandson of Okonkwo, the main character in *Things Fall Apart* returns to Nigeria from England in the 1950s, his foreign education separates him from his African roots. *No Longer at Ease,* the third and concluding novel in Chinua Achebe’s *The African Trilogy*, depicts the uncertainties that beset the nation of Nigeria, as independence from colonial rule loomed near.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Chinua Achebe
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 169
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Penguin Books, Limited, Fawcett Premier
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780606200721
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“For three or four weeks Obi Okonkwo had been steeling himself against this moment.”
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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