There Was a Country: A Memoir

By Chinua Achebe

Book Overview

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart --a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967-1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa's most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe's place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014312403X
• ISBN13: 9780143124030
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher