Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeMore than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United States. A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear

unaware that ransom was never the kidnapper's real objective

and knowing when to stop is of deadly importance in a game of Murder in the Dark

And what became of him

'It isn't likely that this collection of journal entries will pass the censors

Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech

And I know my husband is trying to kill me

And every time a visitor asks a simple question

Dean Kamen

and gives us a sense of what it takes to understand and address a shared trauma

burnt and hurt

At the inn at a hot spring resort

Every time you speak to someone