\u201cA true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.\u201d  \u2014Barack Obama   Nominated as one of America\u2019s best-loved novels by PBS\u2019s The Great American Read  Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe\u00b4s critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa\u00b4s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man\u00b4s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.