9780385260459
Anthills of the Savannah share button
Chinua Achebe
Format Paperback
Dimensions 5.20 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.61 (d)
Pages 224
Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date February 1997
ISBN 9780385260459
Book ISBN 10 0385260458
About Book

In the fictional West African nation Kangan, newly independent of British rule, the hopes and dreams of democracy have been quashed by a fierce military dictatorship. Chris Oriko is a member of the cabinet of the president for life, one of his oldest friends. When the president is charged with censoring the oppositionist editor of the state-run newspaper—another childhood friend—Chris's loyalty and ideology are put to the test. The fate of Kangan hangs in the balance as tensions rise and a devious plot is set in motion to silence the firebrand critic.

Reviews

From the Publisher

"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.

New York Review of Books

. . .has wonderful satiric moments and resounds with big African laughter.

USA Today

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.

Book World Washington Post

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.

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

A portrait of a West African military coup leader and his moral deterioration. This bitterly ironic novel by the Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart is at times more of a polemic than dramatic narrative, but it presents a candid, trenchantly insightful view of contemporary Africa.

NY Review of Books

. . .has wonderful satiric moments and resounds with big African laughter.

Book World Washington Post

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.