The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997) The story is told from the African perspective and his use of African colloquialisms and proverbs is genuinely subversive and innovative.” Nathan LoughranĢ. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe explores the colonial experience by arguably using the tools of colonialism itself, ie the English language. Black African novelists are often sorely under represented in literary criticism and lists of this kind. “It’s an excellent example of black African writing in English of which I felt your list was sadly lacking.
Set in the advent of colonialism and its implications for the native people, the clash of cultures of two different worlds.A story of how a way of life was replaced by another culture.” Kinnie Hindowah “This book is a seminal piece of great story telling. “Brilliant, distinctive, thought-provoking and illuminating of a sense of place and time. Its inventive idiomatic prose highlights the malleability of the English language: no other writer (or translator) has evoked the true essence of another language in English. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
