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No Longer at Ease
by: Chinua Achebe

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780385474559
ISBN: 0385474555
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: September 16, 1994
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: September 16, 1994
Studio: Anchor
Sales Rank: 120725

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The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him parts of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society.

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- Insightful African story that transcends Africa
As a post-graduate student preparing for diplomatic assignment to Africa, my African history curriculum includes a number of Achebe stories. I particularly appreciate "No Longer At Ease." While many point to "Things Fall Apart" as the masterpiece, I find Achebe's later works more engaging due to deeper character colorization.

Style-wise, "No Longer At Ease" has strengths and weaknesses. The dialogue is alive, the descriptions are vivid, the flow generally smooth. However, the pacing is a tad slow and I'm not sure if the non-linear sequence is the best (story opens with endgame and then flashbacks the preceding events that lead up to it). Female characters are shallower than male, which seems to be consistent in Achebe's earlier works.

Substance-wise, there is a ... Read More

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- Plenty of Ease, Apparently
I read this book with great anticipation, as "Things Fall Apart" is probably one of my favourite books of all time. I was sorely disappointed, both with the poor quality of the characterisation, the glacial pace of the plot, the 50 or so pages that could have easily been left out, and the overall not-so-subtle blaming of all life's ills on the white man. Achebe gives the impression that things in Africa would've been just fine had the white man not intervened and gummed up the works. As we can see with the disasters in present day Zimbabwe and Sudan, Africa has long had its own set of problems long before British colonialism.

"Things Fall Apart" was crafted so perfectly that it read like a song...a sad one, but a song nonetheless. "No Longer At Ease" repeats so many of the same ... Read More

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- To he who is given much
I've read about a couple of recent novels published by Nigerian writers about Nigeria yet I've always wanted my first literary encounter with this contentious nation to be through the gaze of its most honored writer Chinua Achebe. In "No Longer at Ease", his second novel, Achebe explores the moral and cultural conflict that arises as the result of an often cataclysmic collision of European colonialism and African independence. Obi Okonkwo, the novel's main character, is a first generation English educated Nigerian. After college, Obi returns to a transitioning Nigeria, where one's options in life are still limited by the aftermath of British rule and the onset of Nigerian corruption (the later resulting in large part from the former). Upon his return, Obi is faced with the financial expectations ... Read More

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- The Trouble with Nigeria
Although considered a sequel to "Things Fall Apart," "No Longer at Ease" stands on its own and does not require that you read Achebe's more famous work (assuming you've somehow made it through school and managed to escape its ubiquity). It's probably more accurate to say that "No Longer at Ease" is a retelling set in modern Nigeria, and it is as great as--perhaps better than--his earlier work.

Obi Okonkwo is the grandson of Okonkwo, the central character in "Things Fall Apart" (and, other than thematic similarities, this is the only direct link between the two books). With the assistance of fellow villagers who had "made it" in the larger world, Obi leaves home for schooling in England and returns to a civil service job in the colonial administration of Nigeria. Because he is one of the select ... Read More

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- No Longer At Ease
After writing "Things Fall Apart", Achebe again comes to us with a masterpiece sequel tiled "No Longer At Ease". This book depicts Obi Okonkwo, the grandson of the Okonkwo in the former. He is an honorable character who comes to a tragic end because of the corruption going on around him, this book also depicts the assimilation that the Nigerians go through and their identity shaken with waves and waves of European influence. A book more concerned over the social issues that the Nigerians at the time felt for their time. This is also shown in Africa today, where corruption run rampant and those in power care nothing about those without power. A powerful novel indeed.

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