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By Chinua Achebe
This is often Chinua Achebe's vintage novel, with greater than million copies bought because its first U.S. book in 1969. Combining a richly African tale with the author's willing knowledge of the characteristics universal to all humanity, Achebe the following exhibits that he's "gloriously proficient, with the magic of an ebullient, beneficiant, nice talent." -- Nadine Gordimer
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It was like the pulsation of its heart. It throbbed in the air, in the sunshine, and even in the trees, and filled the village with excitement. Ekwefi ladled her husband's share of the pottage into a bowl and covered it. Ezinma took it to him in his obi. Okonkwo was sitting on a goatskin already eating his first wife's meal. Obiageli, who had brought it from her mother's hut, sat on the floor waiting for him to finish. Ezinma placed her mother's dish before him and sat with Obiageli. " Okonkwo shouted at her.
People called on their neighbours and drank palm-wine. This year they talked of nothing else but the nso-ani which Okonkwo had committed. It was the first time for many years that a man had broken the sacred peace. Even the oldest men could only remember one or two other occasions somewhere in the dim past. Ogbuefi Ezeudu, who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men who came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said.
When Okonkwo brought him home that day he called his most senior wife and handed him over to her. "He belongs to the clan," he told her. " she asked. "Do what you are told, woman," Okonkwo thundered, and stammered. " And so Nwoye's mother took Ikemefuna to her hut and asked no more questions. As for the boy himself, he was terribly afraid. He could not understand what was happening to him or what he had done. How could he know that his father had taken a hand in killing a daughter of Umuofia? All he knew was that a few men had arrived at their house, conversing with his father in low tones, and at the end he had been taken out and handed over to a stranger.