THERE WAS A COUNTRY urban Only a boy preacher who

Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner

Publisher : Akashic Books

but instead of the idyllic life she imagined

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ISBN-13 : 978-1442487284

THERE WAS A COUNTRY urban Only a boy preacher whoFrom 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 has 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. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering account of one of modern Africa's most