Things Fall Apart
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries and courts remaking…
2,518-word summary · 11 min read
Tag: colonialism
3 books with this tag.
Heart of Darkness
Marlow pilots a steamer up the Congo for a trading company and seeks Kurtz, the brilliant agent who stopped sending ivory and started sending reports no one…
2,315-word summary · 10 min read
The Poisonwood Bible
A missionary drags his wife and four daughters to the Congo in 1959, and Africa remakes each of them.
2,227-word summary · 10 min read