A repackaged edition of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart republished by the publishing giant, Penguin Books, will soon be released as part of
activities marking the sixtieth anniversary of the classic novel next year
(2018). Penguin Books has equally obtained the rights to republish all of the
famous author’s work.
Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s first
novel, published in 1958, now exists in 57 translations, reports say. It has
equally sold 20 million copies.
The repackaged edition comes with
a new cover art work produced by the “distinguished Nigerian artist, Victor
Ekpuk" and author photograph by Don Hamerman.
Chinua Achebe who died on March 21, 2013 in Boston,
Massachusetts, United
States, at the age of 82, was widely regarded as the father of modern African literature
and remains, in the opinion of many scholars, critics and readers, the best
known and most widely read writer to come out of Africa.
On the back cover of the new Penguin edition, the
distinguished Ghanaian philosopher and writer, Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, is quoted as saying: “Things Fall Apart may well be Africa’s best-loved
novel. For so many readers around the world, it is Chinua Achebe who has opened
up the magic casements of African fiction.”
