This is a book that should be savoured, and should have a far wider readership." It is a brilliantly told story of how a young man falls into the ways of corruption, despite his determination not to do so. "One of the less well known works of the great Chinua Achebe, which should be as well known as "Things Fall Apart" or "Anthills of the Savannah". From the author of Things Fall Apart, a novel with more than twenty million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, these works imagine an African community upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire. Showing a man lost in cultural limbo, and a nation entering a new age of disillusionment, No Longer at Ease concludes Achebe's remarkable trilogy. Forced to choose between traditional values and the demands of a changing world, he finds himself trapped between the expectations of his family, his village, and the colonial world. He has become a part of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. 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. A classic story of moral struggle in an age of turbulent social change and the final book in Chinua Achebe’s The African Trilogy
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