There Was a Country: A Memoir

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From the legendary creator of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war

For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a thought to be silence at the events of the Nigerian civil war, often referred to as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Used to be a Country is a towering account of one of brand new Africa’s most disastrous events, from a author whose words and courage left a long-lasting stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand statement and decades of research and reflection, There Used to be a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the most great literary and moral voices of our age.

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