There Was a Country: A Memoir

There Was a Country: A Memoir

<b>From the legendary author of <i>Things Fall Apart</i>—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war</b><br /><br />For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, <i>There Was a Country </i>is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, <i>There Was a Country</i> is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.