Anthills of the Savannah: Chinua Achebe - Softcover

"Achebe has written a story that sidesteps both ideologies of the African experience and political agendas, in order to lead us to a deeply human universal wisdom." --Washington Post Book World

"[Anthills Of The Savannah] has wonderful satiric moments and resounds with big African laughter." --The New York Review Of Books

"Achebe moves effortlessly... creating a flurry of perspectives from which his story's dramatic and disturbing events are scrutinized. Anthills Of The Savannah... will prove hard to forget. It's a vision of social change that strikes us with the force of prophecy" --USA Today

A story of betrayal, love, violent death, and hope set amidst the political and emotional turmoil of Achebe's native Nigeria