Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous throughout West Africa. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy. Chinua Achebe's stark novel reshaped both African and world literature. This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community, continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease.
小說講述了一名非洲部落英雄的故事以及英國殖民者入侵博族人的生活實(shí)況,被稱為非洲英語小說中的杰作,作者以敏銳的洞察力刻畫了一個(gè)信奉傳統(tǒng)的英雄形象——主人公伊博人量個(gè)很有毅力充滿智慧的人,終其一生致力于克服軟弱的父親在他心里下的陰影,并取得了很大的成功,在同鄉(xiāng)鄰里之間贏得了極高的聲望,一度被讀者奉為類似希臘悲劇中的失敗的英雄。文中充滿了悲天憐人的人道主義關(guān)懷,社會(huì)苦難、傳統(tǒng)的人文主義、社會(huì)凝聚力與作者出神入化的敘事技巧構(gòu)成了珠聯(lián)璧合的極致。Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous throughout West Africa. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy. Chinua Achebe's stark novel reshaped both African and world literature. This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community, continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease.