http://www.allconsuming.net/person/rosie A list of things that rosie is consuming Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:40:05 GMT Tue, 31 May 2005 23:44:27 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/ http://www.allconsuming.net/images/icons/43-icon-31x31.gif http://www.allconsuming.net/home <div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10250"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385474547.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="ac-title" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10250">Things Fall Apart: A Novel</a></div><div class="ac-creator">by Chinua Achebe</div><br clear="all" /><p>Picked it up at a 2nd hand shop, had been on my list of should-reads for ages. The storytelling element is great and there&#8217;s a nightmarish sensuality to it which reminds me of the Famished Road. The dialogue is stilted and formal, which is a little disconcerting. I&#8217;m not sure whether it was translated from Nigerian and that&#8217;s the problem, or whether it&#8217;s just the style. (I have a feeling Achebe writes in English so think it must just be the style&#8230;) Definitely worthwhile though, especially to get a glimpse of how enormously he influenced the other African postcolonialist writers who came after him.</p> Tue, 31 May 2005 23:44:27 GMT http://www.allconsuming.net/entry/view/7407 nobody@allconsuming.net (rosie)