Chinua Achebe

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, Okonowo takes violent action. Will the great man's dangerous pride eventually destroy him?

V románe Svet sa rozpadá Chinuu Achebeho ide o klasické rozprávanie o kataklizmatickom stretnutí Afriky s Európou, ktorá na kontinente vytvára koloniálnu prítomnosť. Prostredníctvom fiktívnych zážitkov Okonkwa, bohatého a nebojácneho igbského bojovníka z Umuofie na konci 19. storočia, skúma márny odpor jedného muža voči znehodnocovaniu jeho igbských tradícií britskými politickými a náboženskými silami a jeho zúfalstvo, keď jeho komunita kapituluje pred novým mocenským poriadkom. Svet sa rozpadá je jedným z najosvetľujúcejších a najtrvalejších pamätníkov africkej skúsenosti. Achebe nielenže zachytáva život v predkoloniálnej africkej dedine, ale sprostredkúva tragédiu straty tohto sveta a zároveň rozširuje naše chápanie súčasnej reality. „Skutočná klasika svetovej literatúry... Majstrovské dielo, ktoré inšpirovalo generácie spisovateľov v Nigérii, v Afrike a na celom svete.“ Barack Obama

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl - to the disapproval of his parents - he sinks further into emotional and financial turmoil. The lure of easy money becomes harder to refuse, and Obi becomes caught in a trap he cannot escape. Showing a man lost in cultural limbo, and a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment, No Longer at Ease concludes Achebe's remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the impact of colonialism, the first two volumes of which are Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God.