There Was a Country

**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.

About Author	Chinua Achebe was a novelist, poet, professor at Brown University and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African liter
Author	Chinua Achebe
ISBN	9780143124030
Pages	377
Publication Date	09-23-2013
Publisher	Penguin Publishing Group

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