The classic of African literature by Nigerian Chinua Achebe was originally published in 1962 and is now translated into 32 different languages, and has sold more than 8 million copies.

Chinua Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a man of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria at the end of the last century, is a person of substance, character and promise. But he and his people are doomed to be destroyed – from within by the superstition-bound customs of tribal life, and from without by the arrival of the white man.