A review by katko123
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

2.0

One man, few wives, and lots of children. This is what a traditional family according to this book looks like in Africa, or in the Igbo community anyway. The patriarchy in there is truly disgusting - when a man beats his wife he gets a reprimand from a tribes chief not because he has beaten her, but because he had done so during a holy time (one particular week in a year is considered sacred and no violence is tolerated in that time). Killing, beating, and dying children are normal things, just routine courses of life.
I can´t stand this book for its content and for its language.