There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Chinua Achebe

352 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war...

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Moods

informative 79%
reflective 79%
challenging 50%
sad 50%
emotional 45%
dark 37%
inspiring 37%
tense 29%
hopeful 16%
mysterious 8%
adventurous 4%

Pace

medium 59%
slow 31%
fast 9%

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